Antonyms for predatory
ˈprɛd əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr ipreda·to·ry

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1. predatory

   Antonyms:
   guarding, keeping, watching, protecting

   Synonyms:
   pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous

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1. marauding, predatory, raidingadjective

   characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

   "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, defensive, unaggressive, nonaggressive

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, raiding, predaceous, ravening, vulturous

2. predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturousadjective

   living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

   "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

   Antonyms:
   unaggressive, unacquisitive, nonaggressive, defensive

   Synonyms:
   wolfish, rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, edacious, predaceous, raiding, vulturous

3. predaceous, predacious, predatoryadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   defensive, nonaggressive, unacquisitive, unaggressive

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous, raiding, predaceous

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1. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   predaceous, plundering

How to use predatory in a sentence?

1. Lindsay Zanno:

   Theropods were ready understudies for vacant top predator niches when large-bodied crocs and their relatives bowed out, predatory dinosaurs went on to fill these roles exclusively for the next 135 million years.

2. Howard Scott, Economist:

   A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

3. Russell Moore:

   Someone who has divorced two wives, someone who has been involved in the casino industry that is predatory of the poor, and yet says that he has nothing to be forgiven of, nothing to apologize for, i think that speaks to someone's character.

4. Diane Yentel:

   One unfortunate omission from the White House Blueprint is any administrative action to hold corporate landlords accountable for egregious, predatory and often unlawful behavior during and since the pandemic.

5. Garrett Marquis:

   The Patagonia ground station, agreed to in secret by a corrupt and financially vulnerable government a decade ago, is another example of opaque and predatory Chinese dealings that undermine the sovereignty of host nations.

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