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🦅 Predatory 🦅 Like a vulture
vulturine

vulturine

9.0
Having the look or behavior of a bird that eats dead animals
  • adjective
  • /ˈvʌltəraɪn/
translation icon : vulturino
  • The bird's vulturine features, with its sharp beak and bald head, made it easy to identify as a scavenger.

Examples

  • His vulturine behavior in the meeting, where he quickly criticized others' ideas without offering his own, left a negative impression.

  • The artist captured the vulturine essence of the landscape, highlighting its starkness and the sense of desolation.

  • She was evidently free of her vulturine companion and enjoying it, throwing back her head with an open-throated laugh as she gestured wildly with her cigarette holder.

    Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

vulturous
vsvulturine
1 9.9

Likely to take advantage of weak people or animals, like a bird that eats dead animals

focuses on resemblance or relation rather than actual predatory living

How Vulturelike

vulturine
9.0
vulturous
1 9.9

Surface Forms

vulturine positive

Morphology

vulturine = vulture (transparent) = vultur + ine

The suffix '-ine' clearly denotes a resemblance to or relation with 'vulture'.

Etymology

Vulturine comes from vulture, from Latin vultur meaning 'vulture'. It describes something that looks or acts like a vulture, so it means 'vulture-like' in appearance or behavior.