Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Eager to shed blood.
- adj. Characterized by great carnage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Eager to shed blood; murderous: as, “his bloodthirstie blade,” ; “bloodthirsty lord,”
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a bloodlust.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
Etymologies
- From blood + thirsty. Compare Dutch bloeddorstig ("bloodthirsty"), German blutdürstig ("bloodthirsty"), Danish blodtørstig ("bloodthirsty"), Swedish blodtörstig ("bloodthristy"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Maybe, but in the arts it takes more than just being good; it takes what I call bloodthirsty determination.”
“They were doing their best to strike down the universal monarchy of Spain, which they described as a bloodthirsty, insatiable, insolent, absolute dominion of Saracenic, Moorish Christians.”
“Invocations, in bloodthirsty language, encouraged it to punish the guilty party.”
“Justices — Justiciary — whatever they call their bloodthirsty court, and save your sister from being murdered, and them from becoming murderers.”
“When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything?”
“--- Justiciary --- whatever they call their bloodthirsty court, and save your sister from being murdered, and them from becoming murderers.”
“Justices -- Justiciary -- whatever they call their bloodthirsty court, and save your sister from being murdered, and them from becoming murderers.”
“Rabbinic Judaism developed this last hint and created so many obstacles to execution that the Mishnah described as bloodthirsty a court that executed a man every seven years—every seventy years, objected Eliezer ben Azariah Makkot 7a.”
“The ancient proverb, That bloodthirsty is the man who returns from banishment to power, had been applied, with too much truth, to ‘Marius and Tiberius; and was now verified for the third time in the life of Andronicus.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloodthirsty’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Of blood
bad blood, bloodthirsty, bloodletting, bloodlust, blue blood, bloody hell, red-blooded, bleeding heart, own flesh and blood, cold-blooded, hot-blooded, chec..., bloodbath and 7 more...
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Violence
sucker punch, punch, bunch of fives, haymaker, bare-knuckle, punch-drunk, brawler, scrapper, hellkite, street fighter, gamecock, powerhouse and 30 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Scriptie: The Shakespearean Language ...
It isn't all about fucking cocksuckers. There aren't too many shows on TV that use Wordie words. (So of course it was cancelled.)
Best viewed in cloud format.sweggen, hooplehead, cocksucker, dope, yankton, camp, pussy, bonanza, laudanum, chinaman, hoecake, free gratis and 210 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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Words to describe a person
To describe personality, characteristic, trait, behaviour, quality and attribute of a person.
impulsive, loquacious, capricious, mirthful, vivacious, serious, jocoserious, garrulous, vagarious, anxious, valorous, audacious and 64 more...
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Another Bloody List
bloodwort, bloodroot, bloodwood, bloodstone, blood pudding, blood sausage, blood-drop, bloodworm, bloodhound, bloodnut, blood-red, blood-mare and 43 more...
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Kiki's List
plethora, mitigation, quixotic, sanguine, sanguinary, bloodthirsty, seppuku, harikari, mixologist, mise en place, robust, disputatious and 38 more...
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