predacious

1. 1.

   hunting and killing other animals for food

   Synonymspredaceous

   Similarcarnivorous
2. 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”

   “a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster”

   Synonymspredaceouspredatory

   Similaracquisitive

Questions about predacious

What does predacious mean?

predacious means "hunting and killing other animals for food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in predacious?

predacious has 4 syllables: pre-da-ci-ous. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for predacious?

Close synonyms include predaceous, predaceous, predatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is predacious a common word?

predacious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.