What does "piratical" mean?

Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.

What is a synonym for "piratical"?

Common synonyms include: barbary, buccaneered, buccaneering, marauding, pirate, pirate-like.

Pronounced //paɪˈɹætɪkɘl//.

/paɪˈɹætɪkɘl/ adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Adjective

1
Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
"A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;"
2
Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.

Adjective

"A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work, So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;"

From Latin pīrāticus + -al, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate + -ical.