Usually means: Dependent on others for survival.
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  1. parasitical: Merriam-Webster
  2. parasitical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parasitical: Collins English Dictionary
  4. parasitical: Vocabulary.com
  5. parasitical: Wordnik
  6. parasitical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. parasitical: Wiktionary
  8. parasitical: Dictionary.com
  9. Parasitical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. parasitical: Rhymezone
  11. Parasitical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. parasitical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. parasitical: FreeDictionary.org
  14. parasitical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. parasitical: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parasitical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. parasitical: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. parasitical: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of a parasite; parasitic.

Similar:
bloodsucking, leechlike, dependent, parasitoidal, parasitological, parasitotic, phytoparasitic, mesoparasitic, zooparasitic, hyperparasitic, more...

Opposite:
symbiotic, mutualistic, beneficial



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Similar:
bloodsucking, leechlike, dependent, parasitoidal, parasitological, parasitotic, phytoparasitic, mesoparasitic, zooparasitic, hyperparasitic, more...

Opposite:
symbiotic, mutualistic, beneficial



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