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Definition of Bloodthirsty
1. Adjective. Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed. "Went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"
Definition of Bloodthirsty
1. a. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
Definition of Bloodthirsty
1. Adjective. Eager to resort to violence. ¹
2. Adjective. Characterized by massive bloodshed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bloodthirsty
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bloodthirsty
1. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. Blood"thirstiness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodthirsty
Literary usage of Bloodthirsty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER XXXVIII The chief point of attack—A bloodthirsty mob—The only ...
from beginning to end the fierce attacks of the bloodthirsty mob outside, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... and bloodthirsty cruelty and oppression. Stanley was really the first of
Christian missionaries there; for the slight teachings that he gave the king ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Tendencies — The Effect of War — Stupendous Vanity — Invention of Dialects —
The Passion for War — The Crafty and bloodthirsty Apaches — The Cheyennes ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"You're a bloodthirsty little mosquito," said Mulvaney, blowing blue clouds into
the air. "But I suppose I will have to come wid you. ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"... bloodthirsty, and of great power, three qualities wholly wanting in ''Pistol."
Fancy a cheetah-like warrior, clad in a lion's skin, alias a captain's ..."
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