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PREDACIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does predacious mean?
• PREDACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective PREDACIOUS has 2 senses:
1. hunting and killing other animals for food
2. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Familiarity information: PREDACIOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hunting and killing other animals for food
Synonyms:
predaceous; predacious
Similar:
carnivorous ((used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Synonyms:
predaceous; predacious; predatory
Context example:
a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
Similar:
acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)
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