Sanguinary

ahd-5
  • adjective. Accompanied by bloodshed.
  • adjective. Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty.
  • adjective. Consisting of blood.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of blood; formed of blood: as, a sanguinary stream.
  • Bloody; attended with much bloodshed or carnage: as, a sanguinary encounter.
  • Bloodthirsty; eager to shed blood; characterized by cruelty.
  • Synonyms and Sanguinary, Bloody. Sanguinary refers to the shedding of blood, or pleasure in the shedding of blood;’ bloody refers to the presence or, by extension, the shedding of blood: as, a sanguinary battle; the sanguinary spirit of Jenghiz Khan; a bloody knife or battle.
  • noun. The yarrow or milfoil: probably so called from its fabled use in stanching blood.
  • noun. The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous.
  • adjective. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
  • noun. The yarrow.
  • noun. The Sanguinaria.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Attended with bloodshed.
  • adjective. Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
  • adjective. Consisting of, covered with or similar in appearance to blood.
  • noun. A bloodthirsty person.
  • noun. The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
  • adjective. accompanied by bloodshed
  • Word Usage
    "The despair of the flying Goths found some consolation in sanguinary revenge; and three hundred youths of the noblest families, who had been sent as hostages beyond the Po, were inhumanly slain by the successor of Totila."
    Equivalent
    bloody  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning