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Definition: Bloodthirsty |
BloodthirstyAdjective1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloodthirsty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
Synonyms: BloodthirstySynonyms: bloody-minded (adj), sanguinary (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bloodthirsty |
| English words defined with "bloodthirsty": murderousness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bloodthirsty": Furies of the Guillotine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bloodthirsty": Bloodsucker. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970) | |
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 | Roar; bellow; gorilla; anthropoid ape; simian; primate; barbarous; bloodthirsty; dangerous; enraged; feral; ferocious; fiery; furious; infuriated; primitive; raging; savage; untamed; vicious; violent; wild; enraged; maddened; provoked. |
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| "Bloodthirsty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bloodthirsty" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloodthirsty lover | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "bloodthirsty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i etur për gjak, gjakatar (cruel, sanguinary, sanguinary person). (various references) | |
Arabic | متعطش للدم, وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), سفاح (atrocious, gorilla, hoodlum, hooligan, killer, mug, slaughterer, thug). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръвожаден (bloody minded, cannibalish, sanguinary, slaughterous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 嗜杀. (various references) | |
Czech | krvelaèný (ferocious, sanguinary), krvežíznivý (sanguivorous). (various references) | |
Dutch | moordziek, moordlustig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | murdema. (various references) | |
Farsi | تشنه بخون , سفاک , خونریز, بیرحم (Atrocious, Cruel, Dispiteous, Relentless, Uncharitable, Unrelenting). (various references) | |
Finnish | verenhimoinen. (various references) | |
French | sanguinaire (bloody), avide de sang, assoiffé de sang, assassin. (various references) | |
German | blutrünstig (bloodcurdling, gory, lurid, murderous, sanguinarily, sanguinary). (various references) | |
Greek | αιμοδίψησ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérszomjas (sanguinary, to be out for blood). (various references) | |
Indonesian | haus darah. (various references) | |
Italian | sanguinario (sanguinary, slaughterous), assetato di sangue. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 殺伐 (brutal, savage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さつばつ (brutal, savage). (various references) | |
Manx | jioogh son fuill. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodthirstyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sanguinário (bloody, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine, slaughterous, tigerish, tigrish). (various references) | |
Romanian | ucigaş (assassin, bravo, choker, cut throat, deadly, fatal, felon, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), setos de sânge, sãlbatic (barbarous, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), sângeros (bloody, full-blooded, homicidal, internecine, sanguinary, slaughterous), feroce (awful, barbarous, brutal, cruel, dreadful, fearful, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, inhuman, ruthless, savage, savagely, truculent, unmerciful), crunt (awful, bloody, brutal, cruel, dreadful, horrible, sharp, terrible, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | кровожадный (blood-thirsty, bloody minded, bloody-minded, butcherly, cannibalish, sanguinary, slaughterous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krvožedan (slaughterous). (various references) | |
Spanish | sanguinario (bloody, butcher, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous). (various references) | |
Swedish | blodtörstig (sanguinary). (various references) | |
Turkish | kana susamış (butcherly, sanguinary, tigerish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кровожерливий (sanguinary, slaughterous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tàn bạo (barbarously, brutal, cruel, cruelly, draconian, draconic, ferocious, truculent), khát máu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cruentus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 10 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Viri sanguinum oderunt simplicem iusti quaerunt animam eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Men of blodis hateden the simple; riytwis men forsothe sechen the soule of hym. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The blood-thirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang ginauhaw sa dugo nagadumot kaniya nga maoy matarung; Ug alang sa matul-id, sila magapangita sa iyang kinabuhi. |
| Chinese | 好 流 人 血 的 、 恨 惡 完 全 人 、 索 取 正 直 人 的 性 命 。 |
| Croatian | Krvopije mrze poštenoga, a pravednici mu se za život brinu. |
| Danish | De blodtørstige hader lydefri Mand, de retsindige tager sig af ham. |
| Dutch | Bloedgierige lieden haten den vrome; maar de oprechten zoeken zijn ziel. |
| Finnish | Murhamiehet vihaavat nuhteetonta, oikeamielisten henkeä he väijyvät. |
| French | Les hommes de sang haïssent l`homme intègre, Mais les hommes droits protègent sa vie. |
| German | Die Blutgierigen hassen den Frommen; aber die Gerechten suchen sein Heil. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Depi yon moun serye, ansasen pa vle wè li. Men, moun ki mache dwat yo ap pwoteje l'. |
| Hungarian | A vérszomjasak gyûlölik a tökéletes embert; az igazak pedig oltalmazzák annak életét. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang tulus hati dibenci oleh orang yang haus darah, tapi dilindungi oleh orang yang baik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang makan darah itu benci akan orang-orang saleh, tetapi orang yang benar itu menuntut belanya. |
| Italian | Gli uomini sanguinari odiano l'onesto, mentre i giusti hanno cura di lui. |
| Maori | ¶ E mauahara ana te tangata whakaheke toto ki te tangata i te ngakau tapatahi: tena ko te hunga tika, ka whai ratou kia whakaorangia ia. |
| Norwegian | De blodtørstige hater den ustraffelige, men de rettsindige søker å redde hans liv. |
| Portuguese | Os homens sanguinários odeiam o íntegro; mas os retos procuram o seu bem. |
| Rumanian | Oamenii setowi de sknge urqsc pe omul fqrq prihanq, dar oamenii fqrq prihanq ki ocrotesc viaya. - |
| Russian | лТПЧПЦБДОЩЕ МАДЙ ОЕОБЧЙДСФ ОЕРПТПЮОПЗП, Б РТБЧЕДОЩЕ ЪБВПФСФУС П ЕЗП ЦЙЪОЙ. |
| Spanish | Los hombres sanguinarios aborrecen al íntegro, pero los rectos buscan su bien. |
| Swedish | De blodgiriga hata den som är ostrafflig, men de redliga söka skydda hans liv. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloodthirsty" (pronounced blu"dther'stē) |
| 3 | -s t ē | amnesty, angioplasty, Beastie, Christie, Christy, crusty, dishonesty, dusty, dynasty, feisty, frosty, gusty, hasty, honesty, lusty, majesty, misty, modesty, musty, nasty, rusty, sixty, tasty, testy, thirsty, travesty, trusty, twisty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-h-i-l-o-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: boorishly. | |
-4 letters: birdshot, botryoid, botrytis, broodily, hydrosol, otoliths, ridottos, sorbitol, thyroids, thyrsoid, toothily, torosity. | |
-5 letters: bistort, boorish, bristly, bristol, brittly, dhootis, diobols, disroot, distort, doltish, dottily, drylots, history, horsily, hotrods, hybrids, ooliths, otolith, ridotto, risotto, shortly, soothly, sootily, strobil, styloid, thirdly, thirsty, thistly, thyroid, toroids, trotyls. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-h-i-l-o-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: bloodthirstily. | |
+3 letters: labyrinthodonts. | |
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