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

Synonyms

sanguinary

gory

bally

bloodstained

covered with blood

blood-stained

fucking

blinking

bloodthirsty

crashing

damn

rare

murderous

bleeding

🩸

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

sanguine

accursed

slaughterous

tigerish

ugly

unpleasant

very

villainous

bad

👎

accurst

cursed with

bloody stench

ensanguined

sanguinolent

cursedly

curst

cussed

cursed

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 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 .