| Predatory 1. (a.) Living by preying upon others; plundering; pillaging. 2. (a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. 3. (a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. Thesaurus Entries all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, bloodsucking, carnivorous, despoiling, extortionate, grabby, grasping, greedy, larcenous, looting, lupine, marauding, parasitic, pillaging, plundering, plunderous, predacious, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, ravenous, robbing, sharkish, spoliatory, thieving, usurious, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |