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Adjective predatory has 3 senses
- marauding, predatory, raiding - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
Antonym: defensive (indirect, via offensive)
- predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
Antonyms: unaggressive, nonaggressive (indirect, via aggressive)
- predaceous, predacious, predatory - living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
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