Associations to the word «Predacious»

Wiktionary

PREDACIOUS, adjective. Alternative spelling of predaceous

Dictionary definition

PREDACIOUS, adjective. Hunting and killing other animals for food.
PREDACIOUS, 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.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus