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

1. adjective. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
2. adjective. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
3. adjective. Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
4. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: predaceous, predacious

5. adjective. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

   "a predatory bird"

   "the rapacious wolf"

   Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

6. adjective. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

   "bands of marauding Indians"

   "predatory warfare"

   Synonyms: marauding, raiding

Synonyms

predaceous, predacious, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, marauding, raiding

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in predatory:

portrayed

Common word forms

predatorily

Words from these letters

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