BLOODTHIRSTY (bloodthirstier, bloodthirstiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: bloodthirstier    , bloodthirstiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodthirsty mean? 

• BLOODTHIRSTY (adjective)
  The adjective BLOODTHIRSTY has 1 sense:

1. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed

  Familiarity information: BLOODTHIRSTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOODTHIRSTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed

Synonyms:

bloodthirsty; bloody-minded; sanguinary

Context example:

went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood

Similar:

bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)

Derivation:

bloodthirstiness (a disposition to shed blood)

 Context examples 

But there is a certain villainous and bloodthirsty Norman pirate hight Tete-noire, who, with a Genoan called Tito Caracci, commonly known as Spade-beard, hath been a mighty scourge upon these coasts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had made his name as the most lewd and bloodthirsty tyrant that had ever governed any country with a pretence to civilization.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We jumped at the offer, for we were already sick of these bloodthirsty doings, and we saw that there would be worse before it was done.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is shame and sin to see two Christian Englishmen turn swords against each other like the frenzied bloodthirsty paynim.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)