Sanguinary

Definitions: Sanguinary

Sanguinary

Adjective

1. Accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war".

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.

Date "sanguinary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Sanguinary

Synonyms: bloodthirsty (adj), bloody-minded (adj), butcherly (adj), gory (adj), sanguineous (adj), slaughterous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Killing	Adjective: killing. Verb: murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory; thuggish.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sanguinary

English words defined with "sanguinary": bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherly ♦ gory ♦ Sanguinarily, Sanguinariness, sanguinary ant, sanguineous, slaughterous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sanguinary": Ephes-dammim ♦ Field of Blood ♦ National Workshops ♦ Sanguinary James. (references)

Etymologies containing "sanguinary": Sanguinaria. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Sanguinary Desires (1988)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	And Kyroot Said: Contemporary Commentaries from a Sanguinary Cosmic Sage (reference) Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula or the Adventure of the Sanguinary Court (reference) The Goldcamp Vampire, or the Sanguinary Sourdough (reference) The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale (reference) (more book examples)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	On Lake Erie, the squadron under command of Captain Perry having met the British squadron of superior force, a sanguinary conflict ended in the capture of the whole.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	In Mexico a sanguinary struggle is now carried on, which has caused some embarrassment to our commerce, but both parties profess the most friendly disposition toward us.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sanguinary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sanguinary" is used about 6 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%	6	143,867

Expressions using "sanguinary": sanguinary ant ♦ sanguinary language ♦ sanguinary man ♦ sanguinary person. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "sanguinary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i përgjakshëm (bloody, sanguine), gjakpirës (bloodsucker, caterpillar, leech, sanguineous, sanguivorous, vampire), gjakatar (bloodthirsty, cruel, sanguinary person), gjakësor (murderer, sanguinary man). (various references)

Arabic		‏أحمر كالدم. (various references)

Bulgarian		кървав (bloody, gory, sanguineous), кръвожаден (bloodthirsty, bloody minded, cannibalish, slaughterous), кръвопролитен (gory, internecine, slaughterous), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

Czech		krvelaèný (bloodthirsty, ferocious), krvavý (bloody, Goring, gory, rare, underdone). (various references)

Farsi		خونی (Bloody, Gory, Sanguine), امیدوار (Anticipant, Hopeful, Tantalize), دموی (Sanguine). (various references)

Finnish		verinen (bloody, gory). (various references)

French		sanglant (sanguineous). (various references)

German		grausam (atrocious, barbarous, callous, cruel, cruelly, ferocious, ghastly, heartless, savage), derb (bawdy, blue, broad, coarse, crude, crudely, earthy, inelegant, inelegantly, rank, raw, ribald, stout, strong, tough, uncouth), blutrünstig (bloodcurdling, bloodthirsty, gory, lurid, murderous, sanguinarily), blutig (bloodily, bloody, deadly, gorily, gory, lurid, rare, sanguineous). (various references)

Greek		βλάσφημοσ (blasphemer, blasphemous, swearer), αιματηρόσ (bloody), αιμοχαρήσ. (various references)

Hebrew		עקוב מ�"ם (bloody). (various references)

Hungarian		vérszomjas (bloodthirsty, to be out for blood), véres (bloody, ensanguined, gory, scathing). (various references)

Italian		sanguinario (bloodthirsty, slaughterous). (various references)

Manx		fuilltagh (bloodshot, bloody, confounded, gory). (various references)

Pig Latin		anguinarysay.(various references)

Portuguese		sanguinolento (sanguineous), sanguinário (bloodthirsty, bloody, mure, sanguine, slaughterous, tigerish, tigrish), sangrento (bloody, Goshawk), que causa muitas mortes, feroz (fell, ferociously, fierce, rampant, savage, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, wild, Wilding, wolfish). (various references)

Romanian		sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), sângeros (bloodthirsty, bloody, full-blooded, homicidal, internecine, slaughterous), ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, bravo, choker, cut throat, deadly, fatal, felon, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, thug), roşu la faţã (blowzy, sanguine), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young), însetat de sânge. (various references)

Russian		кровавый (bloody, gory, sanguineous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		krvav (bled, bloodstained, bloody, goring, gory, internecine). (various references)

Spanish		sanguinario (bloodthirsty, bloody, butcher, murderous, sanguine, sanguineous), sangriento (blood-permeated, blood-red, bloody, cruel, gory, sanguineous). (various references)

Swedish		blodtörstig (bloodthirsty), blodig (bloodstained, bloody, deadly, gory, grevious, internecine, rare). (various references)

Turkish		zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, savage, stony, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), kanlı (blooded, bloodshot, bloody, gory, sanguine), kana susamış (bloodthirsty, butcherly, tigerish), küfürlü (abusive, bad, scurrilous, slangy). (various references)

Ukranian		кровожерливий (bloodthirsty, slaughterous), кривавий (bloody, carnal, murderous, sanguineous, slaughterous), закривавлений (blooded, bloody, gory). (various references)

Vietnamese		dã man (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barbarously, bestial, ferocious, inhumanly, savagely), đẫm máu (sanguine), đổ máu khát máu; t� n bạo. (various references)

Welsh		gwaedlyd (bloody). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sanguinarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Sanguinary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanguina, Sanguinaria, Sanguinaro, sangunary, Sanquahar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-n-n-r-s-u-y"
	-2 letters: guaranis, unsaying.
	-3 letters: anginas, anurans, anurias, gainsay, guanays, guanins, guarani, iguanas, nursing, sangria, saurian, snaring, syringa, uranias, yarning.
	-4 letters: agrias, angary, angina, anuran, anuria, grains, grainy, granny, guanay, guanin, iguana, inurns, nairas, rasing, raying, ruanas, sangar, saning, saying, sugary, synura, unrigs, urania.
	-5 letters: again, agars, agria, airns, angas, angry, annas, argus, arias, auras, auris, ayins, gains, garni, gaurs, ginny, girns, gnars, grain, grana, grans, grays, grins, guans, guars, gunny, gyrus, inurn, naans, naira, nanas, naris, ragas, ragis, raias, rains, rainy, rangy, ranis, rayas, rings, ruana, ruing, ruins, rungs, runny, saiga, sanga, saran, sarin, sauna, saury, sugar, suing, sunna, sunny, surgy, unais, unary, unrig, unsay, using, yagis, yangs, yarns, yuans, yugas.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-n-n-r-s-u-y"
	+2 letters: sanguinarily.
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