predatory
adjective
1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
- predatory warfare
Similar word(s): offensive, marauding, raiding
2. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- a predatory bird
Similar word(s): aggressive, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
3. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
- predatory capitalists
- a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
- a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
Similar word(s): acquisitive, predaceous, predacious