Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Translations
eager to resort to violence
- Danish: blodtørstig
- Dutch: bloeddorstig, bloeddorstige
- Finnish: verenhimoinen
- French: sanguinaire
- German: blutrünstig
- Italian: sanguinario
- Russian: кровожадный
- Spanish: sanguinario
characterized by massive bloodshed
- Dutch: bloederig, bloederige
- Finnish: verenhimoinen
- Russian: кровавый (krovávyj), кровопролитный (krovoprolítnyj)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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