Bloodthirsty

3 definitions found

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

  Bloodthirsty \Blood"thirst`y\, a.
     Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a
     bloodlust. -- {Blood"thirst`i*ness} (?), n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bloodthirsty
       adj : marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed;
             "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went
             after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that
             drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn: {bloody-minded},
              {sanguinary}]
       [also: {bloodthirstiest}, {bloodthirstier}]

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

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodthirsty":
     Draconian, Tartarean, aggressive, animal, antagonistic,
     anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly,
     bellicose, belligerent, bestial, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
     brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chauvinist,
     chauvinistic, combative, contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted,
     cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy, fell,
     feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting,
     full of fight, gory, hawkish, hellish, homicidal, hostile,
     infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist,
     jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, murdering,
     murderous, offensive, pitiless, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
     red-handed, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary,
     sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, self-destructive,
     sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly,
     subhuman, suicidal, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian,
     uncivilized, unfriendly, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable,
     unpeaceful, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wolfish