Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, a. [L. sanguinarius, fr. sanguis
blood: cf. F. sanguinaire.]
1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a
sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
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We may not propagate religion by wars, or by
sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
--Bacon.
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2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
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Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary.
--Broome.
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Syn: Bloody; murderous; bloodthirsty; cruel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sanguinary \San"gui*na*ry\, n. [L. herba sanguinaria an herb
that stanches blood: cf. F. sanguinaire. See Sanguinary,
a.] (Bot.)
(a) The yarrow.
(b) The Sanguinaria.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sanguinary
adj 1: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
[syn: gory, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
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 [syn: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanguinary":
Draconian, Tartarean, aggressive, animal, antagonistic,
anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly,
bellicose, belligerent, bestial, blood-spattered, bloodstained,
bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute,
brutish, cannibalistic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative,
contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, demoniac, demoniacal,
devilish, diabolic, enemy, ensanguined, fell, feral, ferine,
ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, full of fight,
gory, grim, hawkish, heartless, hellish, homicidal, hostile,
infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist,
jingoistic, kill-crazy, malign, malignant, martial, merciless,
militant, militaristic, military, murdering, murderous,
noncivilized, offensive, pitiless, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
red-handed, remorseless, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic,
sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, self-destructive,
sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly,
subhuman, suicidal, tameless, trigger-happy, truculent,
unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific,
unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, warlike, warmongering,
warring, wild, wolfish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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