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Synonyms for carnivorous

  • adjective

Most common

meat-eating flesh-eating creophagous predaceous sarcophagic sarcophagous animalivorous

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Flesh-eating — flesh-eating; (usually also specifically) predatorily so, that is, predatory

flesh-eating, meat-eating, creophagous

Other

predaceous, sarcophagic, sarcophagous, animalivorous

Antonyms

herbivorous, omnivorous, insectivorous

All antonyms of carnivorous →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Flesh-eating; (usually also specifically) predatorily so: that is, predatory.

Related words

Word family
carnivorousness

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
carnivoroussteady
predaceousfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

10 letters
predaceous3
11 letters
creophagous, sarcophagic
12 letters
sarcophagous
13 letters
animalivorous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (predaceous3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
carnivore
Deutsch
fleischfressend