Animals
Synonyms for predatory
Synonyms for predatory: rapacious and cutthroat. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for predatory
Interchangeable with predatory in this sense
Audited under predatory's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one predatory carries in that sense.
- rapaciousadjective, in the sense "living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name predatory as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- cutthroatcutthroat is an adjective in the sense "ruthlessly competitive, willing to harm rivals' interests to win"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under predatory and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
A predatory bird.
The true synonym
rapacious
Same sentence, swapped: A rapacious bird.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for predatory in the sentence quoted.
- raiding
- plundering
- marauding
Where predatory turns up in the game
predatory is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where predatory is the trap
- ravenousadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is voracious, in the sense "devouring or craving food in great quantities", so predatory is there to be ruled out.
Play predatory
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so predatory reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other animals words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. predatory carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.