bloodthirsty

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bloodthirsty
    adj 1: 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}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bloodthirsty \Blood"thirst`y\, a.
   Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a
   bloodlust. -- {Blood"thirst`i*ness} (?), n.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodthirsty":
      Draconian, Tartarean, 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, 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, trigger-happy, truculent, unchristian,
      uncivilized, unfriendly, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable,
      unpeaceful, vicious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wolfish
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