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bloodier

bloodier is the comparative form of bloody.

Meaning of bloody

Adjective

bloody (comparative bloodier, superlative bloodiest)

  1. Covered in blood.
    • All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
  2. Characterised by bloodshed.
    • There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
  3. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, informal, mildly) Used as an intensifier.
    • Traffic in central London was a bloody mess this morning.
  4. (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
    • Come to apologize to Charles. I was bloody to him and he's my guest. He's my guest and my only friend and I was bloody to him.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 118–119

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Questions about bloodier

What is bloodier the comparative form of?
Bloodier is the comparative form of bloody.

Words near bloodier in the dictionary

  1. bloodied
  2. bloodied nose
  3. bloodied noses
  4. bloodied up
  5. bloodied-up
  6. bloodier
  7. bloodies
  8. bloodies up
  9. bloodiest
  10. bloodily
  11. bloodiness

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