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predatory |
Grep of noun predatory predatory animal Overview of adj predatory The adj predatory has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. marauding, predatory, raiding -- (characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party") 2. 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") 3. 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) Antonyms of adj predatory 3 senses of predatory Sense 1 marauding, predatory, raiding INDIRECT (VIA offensive) -> defensive Sense 2 predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous INDIRECT (VIA aggressive) -> unaggressive, nonaggressive Sense 3 predaceous, predacious, predatory INDIRECT (VIA acquisitive) -> unacquisitive Similarity of adj predatory 3 senses of predatory Sense 1 marauding, predatory, raiding => offensive (vs. defensive) Sense 2 predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous => aggressive (vs. unaggressive) Sense 3 predaceous, predacious, predatory => acquisitive (vs. unacquisitive) Attributes of adj predatory Familiarity of adj predatory predatory used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj predatory predatory Overview of adj predatory The adj predatory has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. marauding, predatory, raiding -- (characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party") 2. 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") 3. 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)
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