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Definition: Bloody-minded |
Bloody-mindedAdjective1. (British) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloody-minded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonyms: Bloody-mindedSynonyms: bloodthirsty (adj), cantankerous (adj), sanguinary (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bloody-minded |
| English words defined with "bloody-minded": cantankerous. (references) |
| "Bloody-minded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Bloody-minded" is used about 28 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) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "bloody-minded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 重视血淋淋. (various references) | |
Korean | 살벌하 개의하". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oody-mindedblay.(various references) | |
Russian | кровожадный (bloodthirsty, blood-thirsty, bloody minded, butcherly, cannibalish, sanguinary, slaughterous), жестокий (atrocious, barbarous, bitter, bloody minded, brutal, brutish, butcherly, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, doggish, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hard bitten, heathenish, heavy-handed, inhuman, inhumane, iron-handed, keen, mortal, satrapic, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô cùng chết tiệt (bloody), uộc $bloody (bloody), trời đánh thánh vật (bloody), $ hết sức (bloody). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "bloody-minded" (pronounced 'Blood"y-mind"ed'): Able-minded, Aborted, Absent-minded, Abstorted, Adfected, Adusted, Affriended, Apiked, Arcaded, Aspected, Barded, Becomed, Bifronted, Bivaulted, Bladed, Bracted, Breaded, Brocaded, Brouded, Cisted, Clifted, Coadapted, Cockaded, Complected, Conceited, Confated, Congested, Contented, Contorted, Cysted, Debted, demented, Encysted, flighted, Forerecited, Forfered, Forted, Fronded, frosted, Fusted, Gaited, gated, hearted, high-minded, interrelated, Lered, Longheaded, long-winded, Maked, malcontented. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-d-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-y" | |
-4 letters: bloodied, imbolden. | |
-5 letters: benomyl, bionomy, blinded, blooded, bloomed, boloney, boodled, bylined, diddley, dindled, doodled, doomily, eidolon, middled, moodily, moonily, myeloid, noddled, noodled, oinomel. | |
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