Word Meanings - MURDEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak.
Additional info about word: MURDEROUS
Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak. -- Mur"der*ous*ly, adv. Syn. -- Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell; savage; cruel.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MURDEROUS)
- Bloodthirsty
- Gory
- bloody
- murderous
- inhuman
- cruel
- ruthless
- savage
- Sanguinary
- Bloody
- truculent
- bloodthirsty
- Savage
- Ferocious
- ferine
- wild
- uncultivated
- untamed
- untaught
- uncivilized
- unpolished
- rude
- brutish
- brutal
- heathenish
- barbarous
- fierce
- pitiless
- merciless
- violent
- malevolent
Related words: (words related to MURDEROUS)
- 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. - HEATHENISHNESS
The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne. - FERINE
Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n. - 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; - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - 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 - 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. - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - BRUTALLY
In a brutal manner; cruelly. - VIOLENT
probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float - FEROCIOUS
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth. Syn. -- Ferocious, Fierce, Savage, Barbarous. When these words are applied - 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. -- - HEATHENISH
1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living. - MALEVOLENT
Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune. Syn. -- Ill-disposed; envious; mischievous; evil-minded; spiteful; malicious; malignant; rancorous. (more info) pr. of velle to be willing or disposed, to wish. See Malice, - 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. - AYUNTAMIENTO
In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen. - SEMISAVAGE
Half savage. - TRUTHLESS
Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.