Of a person or animal: addicted to bloodshed, bloodthirsty; cruel.

= bloody, adj. (in various senses).

That thirsts for blood; eager for bloodshed, murderous.

Inclined to bloodshed or violence; bloodthirsty; cruel.

General attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a cannibal or cannibalism’.

= bloodthirsty, adj.

Bloodthirsty; cruel; merciless. rare.

that drinks blood; also figurative.

Predisposed to cannibalism; of or relating to a cannibal; resembling a cannibal. Also: (in recent use) designating a member of the U.S. college…

of cruel or sanguinary disposition, bloody-minded.

Blood-sucking; †also figurative bloodthirsty, cruel.

Bloodthirsty; delighting in carnage.

= sanguinary, adj. 2.

Sanguinary.

Bloodthirsty; attended by bloodshed; cruel, merciless. Obsolete.

Causing or delighting in bloodshed; bloody, sanguinary. Now poetic or rhetorical.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a cannibal (in various senses) or cannibalism.

Relating to or suggestive of cannibalism; (also) predisposed to cannibalism.

Relating to or involving cannibalism; predisposed or inclined to cannibalism.