'Bloodthirsty' definitions:
Definition of 'bloodthirsty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson [syn: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary]
Definition of 'Bloodthirsty'
From: GCIDE
- Bloodthirsty \Blood"thirst`y\, a. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a bloodlust. -- {Blood"thirst`i*ness} (?), n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bloodthirsty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggressive,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- battling,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bestial,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- cannibalistic,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- cutthroat,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- Draconian,
- enemy,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- gory,
- hawkish,
- hellish,
- homicidal,
- hostile,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- murdering,
- murderous,
- offensive,
- pitiless,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- red-handed,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- self-destructive,
- sharkish,
- slaughterous,
- slavering,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- subhuman,
- suicidal,
- Tartarean,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfriendly,
- unhuman,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- vicious,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wolfish