Sanguinary

sanguinary
    adj 1: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary
           war" [syn: {gory}, {sanguinary}, {sanguineous},
           {slaughterous}, {butcherly}]
    2: 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}]
    

Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, a. [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis
   blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.]
   1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a
      sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
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            We may not propagate religion by wars, or by
            sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
                                                  --Bacon.
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   2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
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            Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary.
                                                  --Broome.
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   Syn: Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.
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Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, n. [L. herba sanguinaria an herb
   that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See {Sanguinary},
   a.] (Bot.)
      (a) The yarrow.
      (b) The Sanguinaria.
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112 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wolfish