piratical /paɪˈɹætɪkɘl/ adjective2 •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 — 1879 •Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism. formsmore piratical · most piratical