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bloody

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bloody

1 smeared or stained with blood
  • After the fall, her elbow was all bloody.
Synonyms of bloody

bloodstained, gory
Words Related to bloody

bloodred, carmine, crimson, incarnadine, red, reddish, ruby, sanguine, sanguineous

sanguinary
2 eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing
  • a bloody battle
Synonyms of bloody

bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, homicidal, murdering, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
Words Related to bloody

barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cold-blooded, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton

antagonistic, ferocious, fierce, gladiatorial, hostile

aggressive, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, violent

merciless, pitiless, ruthless

bloodstained, fell, gory, grim

despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful
Near Antonyms of bloody

appeasing, conciliatory, disarming, dovish, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaking, placating, placative, placatory, propitiatory

unaggressive, unassertive

benign, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted

tender, warm, warmhearted

clement, lenient, merciful

affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, gentle, kindly

submissive, surrendering, yielding

Synonym Discussion of bloody

bloody, sanguinary, gory mean affected by or involving the shedding of blood. bloody is applied especially to things that are actually covered with blood or are made up of blood.
    • bloody hands
sanguinary applies especially to something attended by, or someone inclined to, bloodshed.
    • the Civil War was America's most sanguinary conflict
gory suggests a profusion of blood and slaughter.
    • exceptionally gory, even for a horror movie

bloody

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of bloody

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
  • The politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption.
Synonyms of bloody

blemish, break, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate
Words Related to bloody

deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken

erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)

blight, tarnish

dent, ding, dint

botch, gum (up), queer

lacerate, wound

disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture

annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck
Near Antonyms of bloody

cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedy

edit, remodel, revise

ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine
Antonyms of bloody

doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp

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