 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bloodthirsty
adjective: 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bloodthirsty \Blood"thirst'y\, adjective
Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a
bloodlust. -- {Blood"thirst'i*ness} (?), noun
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
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