different between bloody vs sanguinary
bloody
English
Alternative forms
- bloudy (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English bl?di?, bl?de? (“bloody”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?þagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood +? -y. Cognate with Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?bl?.di/
- Rhymes: -?di
Adjective
bloody (comparative bloodier, superlative bloodiest)
- Covered in blood.
- Synonyms: bleeding, bloodied, gory, sanguinolent
- Characterised by bloodshed.
- 2007, Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 169
- The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.
- 2007, Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 169
- (rare in US, Canada, common in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Used as an intensifier.
- 1916 May 31, David Beatty during the Battle of Jutland:
- There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.
- 2003, Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, page 64
- You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.
- 2007, James MacFarlane, Avenge My Kin, Book 2: A Time of Testing, page 498
- “You bloody fool, I could?ve stabbed you in the heart,” David said in mock anger, and then smiled widely.
- 1916 May 31, David Beatty during the Battle of Jutland:
- (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
Synonyms
- (intensifier): bally, blasted, bleeding (chiefly British Cockney), blinking, blooming, damn, damned, dang, darned, doggone, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, goddam / goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken (rare), wretched, rotten
- See also Thesaurus:damned
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
bloody (comparative more bloody, superlative most bloody)
- (rare in US, Canada, common in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang, intensifier) Used to express anger, annoyance, shock, or for emphasis.
- Synonyms: bloody well, bally, blasted, bleeding, blooming
Translations
Verb
bloody (third-person singular simple present bloodies, present participle bloodying, simple past and past participle bloodied)
- To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
- To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of bloody mary
Noun
bloody (plural bloodies)
- (casual) bloody mary
Anagrams
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sanguinary
English
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguin?rius.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sæ??w?n??i/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sæ??w?n??i/
- Hyphenation: san?gui?nar?y
Adjective
sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)
- (of an event) Involving bloodshed.
- Synonyms: bloody, gory
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- 1887, Henry Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, Chapter XIII:
- " […] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
- (of a person) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
- Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous
- c. 1730, William Broome:
- Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
- (of an object) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
- Synonyms: bloodsoaked, bloody, gory
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
- 1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […] , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 117):
- We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with sanguine. Sanguine can mean “optimistic”, while sanguinary means “bloodthirsty, gory”.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
sanguinary (plural sanguinaries)
- A bloodthirsty person.
- The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).
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