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parasitic

adjective

1 parasitic

Relating to or caused by parasites:
— Parasitic infection.

synonym: parasitical.

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.    ... show more

Polish: pasożytny, pasożytniczy

2 parasitic

Of or pertaining to epenthesis.

synonym: epenthetic.

Dutch: epenthetisch

3 parasitic

Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another:
— A wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses.
— Parasitic vines that strangle the trees.

synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitical.

Polish: pasożytniczy


Moby thesaurus: abject, accompanying, accordant, agreeing, all-devouring, all-engulfing, associate, associated, at one with, backscratching, beggarly, bloodsucking, bone-lazy, bootlicking, cadging, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coincident, collaborative ... show more.

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