'predacious' definitions:
Definition of 'predacious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: predacious, predaceous]
adjective
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 [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]
Synonyms of 'predacious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- bloodsucking,
- cannibal,
- cannibalistic,
- carnivorous,
- commensal,
- dietetic,
- dining,
- eating,
- extortionate,
- feeding,
- flesh-eating,
- fruitarian,
- gastronomic,
- gluttonous,
- grabby,
- grain-eating,
- graminivorous,
- granivorous,
- grasping,
- grass-eating,
- herbivorous,
- insect-eating,
- insectivorous,
- lactovegetarian,
- looting,
- lupine,
- man-eating,
- marauding,
- meat-eating,
- mensal,
- nourishing,
- nutritious,
- omnivorous,
- omophagous,
- pantophagous,
- parasitic,
- phytivorous,
- phytophagous,
- pillaging,
- plant-eating,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- postprandial,
- prandial,
- predatory,
- preprandial,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravaging,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- spoliatory,
- vegetable-eating,
- vegetarian,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish