bloodthirsty

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From blood +‎ thirsty. Compare Dutch bloeddorstig (“bloodthirsty”), German blutdürstig (“bloodthirsty”), Danish blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”), Swedish blodtörstig (“bloodthristy”).

Adjective

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

1. Eager to resort to violence.
2. Characterized by massive bloodshed.

Translations

eager to resort to violence

• Bulgarian: кръвожаден (bg) (krǎvožaden)
• Czech: krvelačný (cs), krvežíznivý (cs)
• Danish: blodtørstig
• Dutch: bloeddorstig, bloeddorstige
• Esperanto: sangavida (eo)
• Finnish: verenhimoinen (fi)
• French: sanguinaire (fr)
• German: blutrünstig (de)

• Greek: αιμοδιψής (el) (aimodipsís) m and f 
• Hungarian: vérszomjas (hu)
• Italian: sanguinario (it)
• Polish: krwiożerczych (pl)
• Russian: кровожадный (ru) (krovožádnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian: krvoločan (sh), krvožedan (sh)
• Spanish: sanguinario (es)
• Swedish: blodtörstig (sv)

characterized by massive bloodshed

• Dutch: bloederig, bloederige
• Finnish: verenhimoinen (fi)
• Greek: αιμοσταγής (el) (aimostagís) m and f 

• Hungarian: vérengző (hu)
• Russian: кровавый (ru) (krovávyj) , кровопролитный (ru) (krovoprolítnyj)