Meaning of MURDEROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'murdurus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] capable of or conducive to bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue"; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bloody, cutthroat, homicidal |
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| | Definition: | | \Mur"der*ous\, a.
Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing,
murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder;
bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine;
murderous intent; a murderous assault. ``Murderous coward.''
--Shak. -- {Mur"der*ous*ly}, adv.
Syn: Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell;
savage; cruel.
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| | Related Terms: | | animal, anthropophagous, arduous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, deadly, deathly, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devastating, devilish, diabolic, difficult, Draconian, exhausting, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, gory, harrowing, hellish, homicidal, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intolerable, kill-crazy, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, merciless, mortal, murdering, noncivilized, pitiless, red-handed, rigorous, ruinous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, strenuous, stressful, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, Tartarean, truculent, unbearable, unchristian, uncivilized, ungentle, unhuman, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish |
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