Associations to the word «Bloodthirsty»

Wiktionary

BLOODTHIRSTY, adjective. Eager to resort to violence.
BLOODTHIRSTY, adjective. Characterized by massive bloodshed.

Dictionary definition

BLOODTHIRSTY, adjective. Marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats