| Main Entry: | sanguinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bloody |
Synonyms: |
blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguine, sanguineous, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded |
| Notes: | sanguinary means accompanied by bloodshed or eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed, while sanguine means confidently optimistic and cheerful or inclined to a healthy reddish color |
| Main Entry: | sanguinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murderous |
Synonyms: |
arduous, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, criminal, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, exhausting, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, homicidal, killing*, lethal, ruinous, sanguineous, sapping, savage, slaughterous, strenuous, unpleasant |
| Main Entry: | bloodthirsty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murderous |
Synonyms: |
barbaric, cruel, homicidal, inhuman, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, slaughterous |
| Main Entry: | bloody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleeding |
Synonyms: |
blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguinary, sanguine, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded |
| Main Entry: | bloody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-fought |
Synonyms: |
bloodthirsty, cruel, cutthroat, decimating, ferocious, fierce, gory, grim, heavy, homicidal, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine, savage, slaughterous |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
Synonyms: |
barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, wolfish |
Antonyms: |
gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | gory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bloody, horrible |
Synonyms: |
bleeding, blood-soaked, bloodletting, bloodstained, imbrued, murderous, offensive, sanguinary, sanguine |
Antonyms: |
mild, pleasant, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | remorseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without guilt in spite of wrongdoing |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, barbarous, bloody, callous, cruel, fierce, forbidding, greedy, grim, hard, hard-bitten, hard-hearted, hardened, harsh, impenitent, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, murderous, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, rigorous, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, shameless, sour, tough, tyrannical, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unforgiving, unmerciful, unregenerate, unrelenting, unremitting, unrepenting, unyielding, vindictive |
Antonyms: |
ashamed, guilty, remorseful, sad, sorry |
| Main Entry: | bloody-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murderous |
Synonyms: |
bloodthirsty, bloody, cruel, ferocious, homicidal, sanguinary, savage, slaughterous, violent |
| Main Entry: | sanguineous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murderous |
Synonyms: |
arduous, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, criminal, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, exhausting, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, homicidal, killing*, lethal, ruinous, sanguinary, sapping, savage, slaughterous, strenuous, unpleasant |