predacious

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. hunting and killing other animals for food
• Syn:
predaceous
• Similar to:
carnivorous
2. 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, predatory
• Similar to:
acquisitive