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Synonyms for predatory
ˈprɛd əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr ipreda·to·ry
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
predatory
Synonyms:
pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenousAntonyms:
guarding, keeping, watching, protecting
Princeton's WordNet
marauding, predatory, raidingadjective
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
"bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
Synonyms:
rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, raiding, predaceous, ravening, vulturousAntonyms:
unacquisitive, defensive, unaggressive, nonaggressivepredatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturousadjective
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"
Synonyms:
wolfish, rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, edacious, predaceous, raiding, vulturousAntonyms:
unaggressive, unacquisitive, nonaggressive, defensivepredaceous, predacious, predatoryadjective
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
Synonyms:
rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous, raiding, predaceousAntonyms:
defensive, nonaggressive, unacquisitive, unaggressive
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
predatoryadjective
Synonyms:
predaceous, plundering
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "predatory":
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#65151 | ravenous | |
#74268 | plundering | |
#89522 | marauding | |
#108052 | pillaging | |
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#190114 | wolfish | |
#212898 | ravening | |
#298779 | predaceous |
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Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.
For years, we have called attention to the predatory practices of some steel exporting countries. Such practices hurt working people and cheat companies that produce in the U.S., we applaud the administration's efforts today to fix this problem.
Pena Nieto himself, Pena Nieto administration has been a failure, what most Mexicans have seen are the corruption scandals... and the violence -- which, in a way, has become even more destabilizing under Pena Nieto. Organized crime has moved away from sort of organized, large-scale drug trafficking and toward much more predatory local activity.
There are various objectives and motivations that lie behind these attacks, from fraud on one hand to espionage, but they tend to be designed to steal bulk personal data, intellectual property and wider information that supports those aims, they're often linked with other state actors, and we expect this kind of predatory criminal behaviour to continue and to evolve over the coming weeks and months ahead, and we're taking a range of measures to tackle that threat.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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