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murderous
Synonyms and Antonyms of murderous
- the murderous heat of the desert
- those exams were murderous
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic (also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
- braved murderous machine-gun fire to capture the hill from the enemy
- Viking warriors became legendary for the murderous fury they displayed in 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
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