bloodthirsty

adjective bloodthirstier · more bloodthirsty · bloodthirstiest · most bloodthirsty · blood-thirsty · bloudthirsty

1. Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous. [I]t is, as I may ſo ſay, a ſavvcy Plot: and vve all knovv, moſt Reverend Fathers, that vvhat is ſavvce for a Gooſe is ſavvce for a Gander: Therefore, I ſay, as thoſe bloud-thirſty Ganders of the conſpiracy vvould have deſtroyed us Geeſe of the Senate, let us make haſte to deſtroy them, ſo I humbly

   Similar: bloodlusty, homicidal, murtherous, murderous · Opposite: unbloodthirsty

2. Of a book, film, etc.: depicting much violence; gory, violent. [T]here has been recently a tendency on the part of some Education Authorities to select these manifestly worthy portions exclusively, and to avoid reading the more archaic and, so to speak, bloodthirsty books, such as Judges, Kings, and Genesis, altogether.
3. humorous Of a mosquito, tenaciously seeking to draw blood. For, whether they were attracted by the lantern, or by the unaccustomed smell of a white man for which they had been waiting for the last thousand years or so, I know not; but certainly we were presently attacked by tens of thousands of the most blood-thirsty, pertinacious, and huge mosquitoes that