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[ bluhd-thur-stee ] / ˈblʌdˌθɜr sti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR bloodthirsty ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveeager to shed blood; murderous: to capture a bloodthirsty criminal. enjoying or encouraging bloodshed or violence, especially as a spectator or clamorous partisan: the bloodthirsty urgings of the fight fans. Origin of bloodthirstyFirst recorded in 1525–35; blood + thirsty SYNONYMS FOR bloodthirsty1 homicidal, savage, brutal, bloody; merciless, pitiless. SEE SYNONYMS FOR bloodthirsty ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM bloodthirstyblood·thirst·i·ly, adverbblood·thirst·i·ness, nounWords nearby bloodthirstyblood substitute, bloodsucker, blood sugar, blood test, blood thinner, bloodthirsty, blood transfusion, blood type, blood typing, blood urea nitrogen, blood vessel Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bloodthirstyBloodthirsty calls for revenge have filled Facebook and Twitter. Two Days After School Attack, Pakistan Court Lets Terrorists Walk Free|Chris Allbritton|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST His bloodthirsty fighters might be Baghdad's best hope of stopping the Islamic State. The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Nov 3-9, 2014|William Boot|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST “ISIS is pure barbarism, it is bloodthirsty,” Marchouch told The Daily Beast in an interview. ISIS’s Black Flags Are Flying in Europe|Nadette De Visser|July 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Russian revolution of 1917 toppled the tsar and soon installed a bloodthirsty communist regime. Wounds of World War I Have Yet to Heal|Michael F. Bishop|June 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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British Dictionary definitions for bloodthirsty
adjective -thirstier or -thirstiestmurderous; cruel taking pleasure in bloodshed or violence describing or depicting killing and violence; gruesomea bloodthirsty film Derived forms of bloodthirstybloodthirstily, adverbbloodthirstiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bloodthirstyruthless, homicidal, barbaric, cruel, inhuman, savage, sanguinary, slaughterous |