bloody

Meaning

Adj

1. Covered in blood.
2. Characterised by bloodshed.
3. (British, Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, informal, mildly, vulgar) Used as an intensifier.
4. (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.

Adv

Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or for emphasis.

Verb

1. (transitive) To stain with blood.
2. (transitive) To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
3. (transitive) To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).

Noun

Ellipsis of bloody mary.

Synonyms

sanguinary

gory

bally

bloodstained

covered with blood

blood-stained

fucking

blinking

bloodthirsty

crashing

damn

rare

murderous

bleeding

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bloodied

blooming

damned

sanguineous

all-fired

devilishly

flaming

red

ruddy

damnable

damnably

cruel

dratted

ferocious

welded in blood

foul

blood red

goddamn

goddamned

blooded

hexed

infernal

internecine

killing

lousy

maledict

mean

motherfucking

bleed

🩸

nasty

blasted

raw

shitless

saguinary

sadistic

beastly

Translations

blutig

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sanglant

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sangriento

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insanguinato

sanguinoso

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cruento

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αιματηρός

bloederig

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kanlı

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ensangrentado

sanguinaire

sanguinolento

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sangrento

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sanglante

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblʌ.diː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blody

Inherited from Old English: blōdiġ

Cognate with Dutch: bloedig

Cognate with German: blutig

Cognate with Danish: blodig

Cognate with Swedish: blodig

Cognate with Icelandic: blóðugur

In summary

From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdag, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bläidich, blöidig, blouderch (“bloody”), West Frisian bloedich (“bloody”), Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German Low German blödig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Faroese blóðigur (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.

Sentences

Decades later , political unrest in the kingdoms of Elemen turned into bloody civil war .