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sanguinaceous |
sanguinaria |
sanguinaria canadensis |
sanguinarily |
sanguinariness |
sanguinary
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sanguinary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sanguinary has 2 senses
- sanguinary(s = adj.all) butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous - accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
- sanguinary(s = adj.all) bloodthirsty, bloody-minded - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
sanguinary, a. [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.].
- Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle. [1913 Webster]"We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences." [1913 Webster]
- Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. [1913 Webster]"Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.
sanguinary, n. [L. herba sanguinaria an herb that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See Sanguinary, a. ].
The yarrow. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sanguinary, adj.
1 accompanied by or delighting in bloodshed.
2 bloody; bloodthirsty.
3 (of laws) inflicting death freely.
1 accompanied by or delighting in bloodshed.
2 bloody; bloodthirsty.
3 (of laws) inflicting death freely.
Derivative
sanguinarily adv. sanguinariness n.
Etymology
L sanguinarius f. sanguis -inis blood
THESAURUS
sanguinary
Draconian, Tartarean, aggressive, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial, blood-spattered, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy, ensanguined, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, full of fight, gory, grim, hawkish, heartless, hellish, homicidal, hostile, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, kill-crazy, malign, malignant, martial, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous, noncivilized, offensive, pitiless, pugnacious, quarrelsome, red-handed, remorseless, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wolfishROGET THESAURUS
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Killing
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
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