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bloody
Synonyms and Antonyms of bloody
- After the fall, her elbow was all bloody.
- a bloody battle
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
bloodstained, fell, gory, grim
despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful
appeasing, conciliatory, disarming, dovish, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaking, placating, placative, placatory, propitiatory
benign, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted
Synonym Discussion of bloody
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- bloody hands
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- the Civil War was America's most sanguinary conflict
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- exceptionally gory, even for a horror movie
bloody
Synonyms and Antonyms of bloody
- The politician's reputation was permanently bloodied by the rumors of corruption.
deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken
erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)
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
doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp
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