internecine

Meaning

1. (not-comparable) Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare.
2. (not-comparable) Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.

Synonyms

destructive

bloodstained

bloody

🩸

destroying

disastrous

fatal

fateful

gory

grievous

inside

internal

mutual

pernicious

rare

reciprocal

red

ruinous

sanguinary

blasting

sanguineous

Translations

intestino

αλληλοεξοντωτικός

mortífero

αλληλοφθόνος

πολυαίμακτος

distruttivo

fratricida

micidiale

moorddadig

verwoestend

intestino

conflito interno

fraticida

birbirini kırıp öIdüren

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin internecīnus (“deadly”), from internecium (“a massacre, bloodbath; an eradication”) + -īnus. In Latin, the sememe 'between' was here not expressed by the prefix, it instead either had a somewhat emphatic meaning or meant "down, under", comparable to its use in other Latin terms related to death: see interficiō and intereō. The English current sense is thus a reanalysis of the Latin through English inter-.