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Adjective predacious has 2 senses
- predacious, predaceous - hunting and killing other animals for food
Antonym: herbivorous (indirect, via omnivorous, insectivorous, carnivorous)
Antonym: omnivorous (indirect, via insectivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous)
Antonym: insectivorous (indirect, via carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous)
- predaceous, predacious, predatory - 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
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
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