adj
Meaning 1
Of, or relating to a predator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
predatory
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛdət(ə)ɹi/
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General-American: /ˈpɹɛdəˌtɔɹi/
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CMU ARPABET: P R EH1 D AH0 T AO2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Living by preying on other living animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predaceous, predacious
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- predatory lending
- predatory inclusion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain- Peter S. Prescott- W.E.Swinton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- predatory capitalists
- a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
- a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predaceous, predacious
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a predatory bird
- the rapacious wolf
- raptorial birds
- ravening wolves
- a vulturine taste for offal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- bands of marauding Indians
- predatory warfare
- a raiding party
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: marauding, raiding
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin praedātōrius, equivalent to predator + -y.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գիշատիչ (gišatičʻ) — relating to predators
- Bulgarian: хищен (hišten) — relating to predators
- Dutch: roofachtig — relating to predators
- French: prédateur — relating to predators
- Georgian: მტაცებლური (mṭacebluri) — relating to predators
- German: räuberisch — relating to predators
- Greek: αρπακτικός (arpaktikós) — relating to predators
- Italian: predatorio — relating to predators
- Japanese: 捕食者の (hoshokushano) — relating to predators
- Persian: درندگی (darrandegi) — relating to predators
- Polish: drapieżny — relating to predators
- Portuguese: predatório — relating to predators
- Russian: хи́щнический (xíščničeskij) — relating to predators
- Spanish: depredador — relating to predators
- Ukrainian: хижа́цький (xyžácʹkyj) — relating to predators
- Welsh: rheibus — relating to predators
- Welsh: ysglyfaethus — relating to predators
- Japanese: 肉食性の (nikushokuseino) — living by preying on other living animals
- Japanese: 捕食性の (hoshokuseino) — living by preying on other living animals
- Polish: drapieżny — living by preying on other living animals
- Russian: хи́щный (xíščnyj) — living by preying on other living animals
- Ukrainian: хи́жий (xýžyj) — living by preying on other living animals
- Japanese: 搾取的な (sakushutekina) — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Polish: łupieżczy — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Polish: rabunkowy — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Polish: grabieżczy — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Russian: хи́щный (xíščnyj) — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Russian: хи́щнический (xíščničeskij) — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Ukrainian: хижий (xyžyj) — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
- Ukrainian: хижа́цький (xyžácʹkyj) — (figuratively) exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
Real reading context