What is another word for blood-thirsty?

Pronunciation: [blˈʌdθˈɜːsti] (IPA)

Blood-thirsty is a term often used to describe a person or animal that has a strong craving for blood or violence. However, there are several other synonyms that can be used in place of this term. Some of the most common alternatives include ferocious, savage, ruthless, barbaric, and cruel. Other similar terms include brutal, merciless, and aggressive. Each of these synonyms conveys the idea of a person or animal that is violent or has a strong desire to injure others. While these terms are often used interchangeably with blood-thirsty, they each have their own unique connotations and shades of meaning.

Famous quotes with Blood-thirsty

  • Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
    Baron d'Holbach
  • Keith has one of those all terrain things that will come in so handy when the world ends and we need a nine-thousand -cylinder engine to drive over those hordes of blood-thirsty mutants crawling all over the video-game landscape.
    Daniel Handler
  • We know how to deal with apocalyptic blood-thirsty fanatics. We have two thousand years of historical examples in various religions of these death cults exploding out of the mainstream religion. And in two thousand years there is not a single example of these wildfire death cults being put down without extreme violence. Not a single example. But the Obama Administration doesn't know history, they don't want to know history, they don't want to deal with reality. And the reality is: That the way you deal with Islamic State - these blood-thirsty, blood-drunken terrorists - is to kill them, keep on killing them until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat! That's how you deal with them.
    Ralph Peters

Related words: bloodthirsty, blood thirsty

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