Murderous

3 definitions found

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

  Murderous \Mur"der*ous\, a.
     Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing,
     murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder;
     bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine;
     murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward."
     --Shak. -- {Mur"der*ous*ly}, adv.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell;
          savage; cruel.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  murderous
       adj : capable of or conducive to bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue";
             "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs" [syn: {cutthroat},
              {homicidal}]

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

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "murderous":
     Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, arduous, atrocious,
     barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody,
     bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic,
     cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, deadly, deathly, demoniac,
     demoniacal, destructive, devastating, devilish, diabolic,
     difficult, exhausting, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious,
     fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, gory, harrowing, hellish, homicidal,
     infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intolerable, kill-crazy, killing,
     lethal, malign, malignant, merciless, mortal, murdering,
     noncivilized, pitiless, red-handed, rigorous, ruinous, ruthless,
     sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage,
     self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, strenuous,
     stressful, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, truculent, unbearable,
     unchristian, uncivilized, ungentle, unhuman, untamed, vicious,
     wild, wolfish