Sanguinary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Accompanied by bloodshed.
  • adj. Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty.
  • adj. Consisting of blood.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Attended with bloodshed.
  • adj. Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
  • adj. Consisting of, covered with or similar in appearance to blood.
  • n. A bloodthirsty person.
  • n. The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous.
  • adj. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
  • n. The yarrow.
  • n. The Sanguinaria.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of blood; formed of blood: as, a sanguinary stream.
  • Bloody; attended with much bloodshed or carnage: as, a sanguinary encounter.
  • Bloodthirsty; eager to shed blood; characterized by cruelty.
  • Synonyms and Sanguinary, Bloody. Sanguinary refers to the shedding of blood, or pleasure in the shedding of blood;’ bloody refers to the presence or, by extension, the shedding of blood: as, a sanguinary battle; the sanguinary spirit of Jenghiz Khan; a bloody knife or battle.
  • n. The yarrow or milfoil: probably so called from its fabled use in stanching blood.
  • n. The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
  • adj. accompanied by bloodshed
  • Equivalent
    bloody   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    murderous    bloodthirsty    bloody    cruel    slaughterous    gory    butcherous   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    murderous    lawless    barbarous    bloody    bloodthirsty    warlike    implacable    tyrannical    atrocious    protracted