Parasitic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*s[i^]t"[i^]k), Parasitical
  \Par`a*sit"ic*al\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*s[i^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [L.
     parasiticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. parasitique.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Of the nature of a parasite; having the habits of a
        parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.


        "Parasitic preachers." --Milton.
  
     Syn: leechlike, bloodsucking.
          [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Bot. & Zool.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on,
        or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or
        plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3.
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     {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zool.) See {Jager}.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
        {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parasitic
       adj 1: relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection"
              [syn: {parasitical}]
       2: of or pertaining to epenthesis [syn: {epenthetic}]
       3: 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"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his
          indolent leechlike existence" [syn: {parasitical}, {leechlike},
           {bloodsucking}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "parasitic":
     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, collective,
     collusive, combined, combining, commensal, concerted, concomitant,
     concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, consilient,
     conspiratorial, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate, cowering,
     coworking, crawling, cringing, crouching, dilatory, do-nothing,
     doless, dronish, drony, easy, ecological, ecotopic, ergophobic,
     extortionate, faineant, fawning, flattering, footlicking,
     good-for-nothing, grabby, grasping, groveling, hangdog, harmonious,
     indolent, ingratiating, joint, kowtowing, laggard, lax, lazy,
     leechlike, lupine, mealymouthed, meeting, nonaggressive, obeisant,
     obsequious, on bended knee, predacious, predatory, procrastinative,
     prostrate, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, remiss,
     saprophytic, scrounging, sharkish, shiftless, slack, slothful,
     slow, sniveling, sponging, sycophantic, symbiotic, synchronous,
     synergetic, synergic, synergistic, timeserving, toadeating,
     toadying, toadyish, truckling, unenterprising, united, uniting,
     vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, work-shy