bloody

Meaning

Adj

1. Covered in blood.
2. Characterised by bloodshed.
3. (informal) Used as an intensifier.
4. Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.

Adv

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

Verb

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

Noun

bloody mary

Concepts

bloody

sanguinary

gory

bloodstained

bally

blood-stained

fucking

covered with blood

blinking

bloodthirsty

rare

bloodied

crashing

damn

blooming

bleeding

murderous

damned

all-fired

flaming

devilishly

red

ruddy

sanguineous

raw

bloody stench

welded in blood

blooded

killing

very

ensanguined

slaughterous

saguinary

sanguine

cruel

sadistic

tigerish

blood red

bleed

bad

beastly

foul

mean

nasty

ugly

villainous

goddamned

infernal

shitless

hexed

accursed

accurst

blasted

cursed

cursed with

curst

cussed

damnable

maledict

cursedly

damnably

internecine

goddamn

motherfucking

ferocious

dratted

lousy

sanguinolent

unpleasant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblʌ.diː/

Etymology

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 Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“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 .