different between menacing vs bloodthirsty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n?s??/
• Hyphenation: men?acing

Adjective

menacing (comparative more menacing, superlative most menacing)

1. Suggesting imminent harm.
2. Threatening.

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Verb

menacing

1. present participle of menace

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Noun

menacing (plural menacings)

1. The act of making menaces or threats.
   • 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation

     They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.

English

Etymology

From blood +? thirsty. Cognate with West Frisian bloeddorstich (“bloodthirsty”), Dutch bloeddorstig (“bloodthirsty”), German blutdürstig (“bloodthirsty”), Danish blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”), Swedish blodtörstig (“bloodthristy”), Norwegian blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bl?d???sti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl?d???sti/
• Hyphenation: blood?thirsty, blood?thirs?ty

Adjective

bloodthirsty (comparative bloodthirstier or more bloodthirsty, superlative bloodthirstiest or most bloodthirsty)

1. Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.

   Synonyms: bloodlusty, homicidal, (archaic) murtherous, murderous

   Antonym: unbloodthirsty
2. Of a book, film, etc.: depicting much violence; gory, violent.
3. (humorous) Of a mosquito, tenaciously seeking to draw blood.

Alternative forms

• blood-thirsty
• bloudthirsty, bloud-thirsty (obsolete)

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