1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
"bands of marauding Indians""predatory warfare""a raiding party"
2. 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"
3. 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