Dictionary Entry
predatory
predatory is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
- 2adjective
Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
- 3adjective
Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
- 4adjective
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain- Peter S. Prescott- W.E.Swinton
"predatory capitalists"
"a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"
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- 5adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
"a predatory bird"
"the rapacious wolf"
- 6adjective
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
"bands of marauding Indians"
"predatory warfare"
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