Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- eager to shed blood; murderous: to capture a bloodthirsty criminal.
- enjoying or encouraging bloodshed or violence, especially as a spectator or clamorous partisan: the bloodthirsty urgings of the fight fans.
adjective -thirstier or -thirstiest
- murderous; cruel
- taking pleasure in bloodshed or violence
- describing or depicting killing and violence; gruesomea bloodthirsty film
also blood-thirsty, 1530s (Coverdale, Ps. xxv:9), from blood (n.) + thirsty (adj.). Ancient Greek had a similar image in haimodipsos. Related: Bloodthirstiness.