Sanguinary

4 definitions found

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

  Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, a. [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis
     blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.]
     1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a
        sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
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              We may not propagate religion by wars, or by
              sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
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              Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary.
                                                    --Broome.
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     Syn: Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, n. [L. herba sanguinaria an herb
     that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See {Sanguinary},
     a.] (Bot.)
        (a) The yarrow.
        (b) The Sanguinaria.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sanguinary
       adj 1: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
              [syn: {gory}, {sanguineous}, {slaughterous}, {butcherly}]
       2: 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: {bloodthirsty}, {bloody-minded}]

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

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