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Meaning of "predative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PREDATIVE

ˈpredətɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREDATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Predative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREDATIVE

administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · decorative · degradative · derivative · exudative · informative · initiative · laudative · legislative · negative · quantitative · relative · representative · retardative · sedative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREDATIVE

pred. · predaceous · predaceousness · predacious · predaciousness · predacity · predate · predation · predatism · predator · predatorily · predatoriness · predatory · predatory pricing · predawn · predeath · predebate · predecease · predecessor · prededuct

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREDATIVE

active · affirmative · authoritative · creative · cumulative · illustrative · imaginative · imperative · in the negative · indicative · innovative · integrative · investigative · lucrative · native · normative · operative · provocative · qualitative · sales representative · tentative

Synonyms and antonyms of predative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «predative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PREDATIVE

Find out the translation of predative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of predative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «predative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

predative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

depredados
570 millions of speakers
en

English

predative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

predative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

predative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

predative
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

predadoras
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

predative
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

predative
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Predikat
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

predative
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

predative
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

predative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Predator
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

predative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

predative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मुग्ध
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Prediktif
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

predative
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

predative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

predative
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

predative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

predative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

predative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

predative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

predative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of predative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREDATIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of predative
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «predative».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about predative

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREDATIVE»

Discover the use of predative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to predative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... prototype predacious adj syn RAPACIOUS 1, predative, predatorial, predatory, raptorial, vulturine, vulturish, vulturous predate vb syn PRECEDE 2, antecede, antedate, forerun, pace predative adj syn RAPACIOUS 1, predacious, predatorial , ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
2
Garner's Modern American Usage
Stage 1 predatory; *predative; *predatorial; predacious; *predaceous. For the sense “preying on other animals,” predatory is the most usual term. *Predative and *predatorial are rare NEEDLESS VARIANTS. Predacious and *predaceous might ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
3
Oceanography and Marine Biology
Another group of meiobenthic predators, the Acarida, seem to exert some predative pressure on oligochaetes. Several semi-terrestrial and marine Gamasida and Halacarida have been observed to suck out marine enchytraeids and naidids ...
Harold Barnes, 2003
4
New Directions in Post-Keynesian Economics
Although Keynes tended to have sympathy with the plight of nervous investors and antagonism towards speculators who earned predative gains from structural decline, he clearly saw the situation as a crisis of macro-consciousness that ...
John Pheby, 1989
5
Interdisciplinary Economics: Kenneth E. Boulding’s ...
It is hard perhaps to think of its many forms and manifestations as populations, but they do interact in a highly ecological way—sometimes reinforcing each other , sometimes competing with each other, sometimes in a predative relationship.
Wilfred Dolfsma, Stefan Kesting, 2013
6
Women in Love: Easyread Edition
marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look. Her colourless hair was untidy, wisps floating down on to her sac coat of dark blue silk, from under her blue silk hat. She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but  ...
D. H. Lawrence, 2009
7
DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science
It should also be taken into consideration that L. perugiae like most teleosts produce a large surplus of offspring of which only a minute number reaches maturity due to heavy predative pressure. This may counteract or bias the gene pool of the ...
Sergio D. Pena, 1993
8
The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories
... her bold, predative eyes. She spoke with a certain foreign stiffness. 'Good afternoon!' said the girls. 'Which beautiful little lady like to hear her fortune? Give me her little hand?' She was a tall woman, with a frightening way of reaching forward ...
D. H. Lawrence, 2004
9
A Dictionary of Entomology
PREDATIVE Adj. (Latin, predaetor I hunter.) Predatory. PREDATOR Noun. (Latin, predaetor I hunter + -or I one who does something. PL, Predators.) An animal that overpowers, kills and consumes other animals (prey). Predators constitute one ...
‎2011
10
A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the ...
... strengths, internal tensions, and philosophic depth of the (pre-conquest) Igbo/ African people of Umuofia as they confront, survive, and try to transcend, as does black America, the predative encroachment of a domination- minded white world  ...
Christopher N. Okonkwo, 2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREDATIVE»

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1
Snake Imitators Persist
How long can this false logic be perpetuated among the predative species in the absence of any 'real' selective pressure (such as the presence ... «Scientist, Jun 14»
2
Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony
We are all familiar with the predative nature of the Vikings. The Italians and Germans tried to colonize Africa. And when these nations were not ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Nov 13»
3
Revisting Yerofeyev's Train Journey to Petushski
You can imagine what the eyes are like where everything is bought and sold — deeply hidden, secretive, predative and frightened. Devaluation ... «The Moscow Times, Oct 13»
REFERENCE
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