Word Meanings - BLOODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat. 2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief. 3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel,

Additional info about word: BLOODY

1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat. 2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief. 3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. 4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. 5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLOODY)

• Bloodthirsty
• Gory
• bloody
• murderous
• inhuman
• cruel
• ruthless
• savage
• Fell
• Cruel
• barbarous
• direful
• merciless
• pitiless
• remorseless
• relentless
• fierce
• truculent
• Sanguinary
• Bloody
• bloodthirsty

Related words: (words related to BLOODY)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• TRUCULENTLY
  In a truculent manner.
• SANGUINARY
  1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle. We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. Bacon. 2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. Passion
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• CRUELS
  Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
• INHUMAN
  1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
• TRUCULENT
  1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia. Ray. 2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless. More or less truculent plagues. Harvey.
• SAVAGELY
  In a savage manner.
• CRUELLY
  1. In a cruel manner. 2. Extremly; very. Spectator.
• FIERCE
  fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage, cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel; perh. akin to E. bear the animal. 1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. His fierce thunder drove us to the
• CRUELNESS
  Cruelty. Spenser.
• SAVAGE
  belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage
• DIREFUL
  Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n.
• RUTHLESS
  Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless. Their rage the hostile bands restrain, All but the ruthless monarch of the main. Pope. -- Ruth"less*ly, adv. -- Ruth"less*ness, n.
• BLOODY SWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• BARBAROUSLY
  In a barbarous manner.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• OVERFIERCE
  Excessively fierce.
• BEBLOOD; BEBLOODY
  To make bloody; to stain with blood. Sheldon.
• SEMIBARBAROUS
  Half barbarous.
• UNBLOODY
  Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. The Mass.