Word Meanings - CUTTHROAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUTTHROAT)

• Ruffian
• Villain
• cutthroat
• brutal fellow
• bully

Related words: (words related to CUTTHROAT)

• RUFFIAN
  brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• BRUTAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• BRUTALLY
  In a brutal manner; cruelly.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• FELLOWLY
  Fellowlike. Shak.
• BULLY; BULLY BEEF
  Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
• RUFFIANLIKE
  Ruffianly. Fulke.
• BULLY TREE
  The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
• RUFFIANISH
  Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
• BULLY
  1. Jovial and blustering; dashing. "Bless thee, bully doctor." Shak. 2. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
• VILLAINY
  1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak. 2. Abusive, reproachful
• RUFFIANAGE
  Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.
• BULLYRAG
  See BULLIRAG
• FELLOW
  companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• UNFELLOWED
  Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
• DISFELLOWSHIP
  To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
• ODD FELLOW
  A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
• PEWFELLOW
  1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
• GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
  Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• COACHFELLOW
  One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.