murderous

murderous
    adj 1: characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency
           toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage";
           "murderous thugs" [syn: {homicidal}, {murderous}]
    

Murderous \Mur"der*ous\, a.
   Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing,
   murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder;
   bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine;
   murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward."
   --Shak. -- {Mur"der*ous*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell;
        savage; cruel.
        [1913 Webster]
    

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "murderous":
      Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, arduous, atrocious,
      barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody,
      bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic,
      cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, deadly, deathly, demoniac,
      demoniacal, destructive, devastating, devilish, diabolic,
      difficult, exhausting, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious,
      fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, gory, harrowing, hellish, homicidal,
      infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intolerable, kill-crazy, killing,
      lethal, malign, malignant, merciless, mortal, murdering,
      noncivilized, pitiless, red-handed, rigorous, ruinous, ruthless,
      sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage,
      self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, strenuous,
      stressful, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, truculent, unbearable,
      unchristian, uncivilized, ungentle, unhuman, untamed, vicious,
      wild, wolfish