Predacious

Definition: Predacious

Predacious

Adjective

1. Hunting and killing other animals for food.

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.

Synonyms: Predacious

Synonyms: predaceous (adj), predatory (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Predacious

English words defined with "predacious": Acanthocybium solandri, assassin bug ♦ billfish, Bittacidae ♦ carabid beetle, centipede, clerid, clerid beetle ♦ Devil's coachhorse ♦ family Bittacidae ♦ gar, ground beetle ♦ jack ♦ mantid, mantis ♦ needlefish ♦ predaceous, predatory ♦ reduviid ♦ wahoo. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Biological Control of Gastro-Intestinal Nematodes of Ruminants Using Predacious Fungi: Proceedings of a Workshop (reference) Predacious Arthropods: Agriculture's First Line Ofdefense (reference) (more book examples)
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"Predacious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Predacious" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Expressions using "predacious": predacious animal ♦ predacious instinct. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "predacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		grabitqar (predator, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, vulture, wolfish). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفترس (predatory, rapacious, ravenous, voracious), ‏مبشر ب. (various references)

Bulgarian		хищнически (predatory), хищен (accipitrine, covetous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturous), граблив (predatory, rapacious, raptorial), грабителски (extortionate, predatory, rapacious, ravenous). (various references)

Czech		dravý (ferocious, fierce, predatory, rapacious, rapid). (various references)

German		räuberisch (piratically, predatorily, predatory, rapacious). (various references)

Greek		αρπακτικόσ (curmudgeon, grasping, predaceous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, ravishing, vulturous). (various references)

Hebrew		טורף (predator, rapacious). (various references)

Hungarian		ragadozó (carnivorous, lupine, predator, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous), zsákmányra vadászó (predatory), zsákmányoló (predatory, spoiler), rabló (conquistador, harrier, mugger, predatory, robber). (various references)

Pig Latin		edaciouspray

Portuguese		rapinante (rapacious). (various references)

Romanian		rãpitor (charming, grasping, predatory, rapacious, rapturous, ravishing), de pradã (marauding, predatory, raptorial). (various references)

Russian		хищный (predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, vulturish, vulturous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grabljiv (grasping, predatory, rapacious, ravenous, vulturous). (various references)

Spanish		rapaz (lad, laddie, nipper, predaceous, predatory, rapacious), de rapiña (predaceous, predatory). (various references)

Swedish		rovlysten (edacious, ferocious, rapacious, ravenous), rovgirig (edacious, rapacious, ravenous), rov- (predatory, rapacious, raptorial). (various references)

Turkish		yırtıcı (ferocious, predaceous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, ripper, savage). (various references)

Ukrainian		хижий (predatory, rapacious, ravenous, sharking, vulturous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Predacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: precancerous, predadious, pretacious, radacious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: picadores.
	-2 letters: caroused, cuspidor, diaspore, edacious, idocrase, parodies, peracids, percoids, picadors, precious, produces, scorepad, sporadic, upraised, upsoared.
	-3 letters: acerous, adipose, adipous, apercus, aroused, aspired, auspice, carious, carouse, codeias, copiers, coursed, crisped, croupes, cruised, crusade, crusado, curiosa, despair, diapers, parodic, peascod, peracid, percoid, periods, picador, picaros, piceous, praised, produce, prosaic, radices, recoups, redcaps, residua.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-p-r-s-u"
	+3 letters: propaedeutics, quasiperiodic.
	+4 letters: reduplications.
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