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bloodyminded

bloodyminded is the alternative form of bloody-minded.

Meaning of bloody-minded

Adjective

bloody-minded (comparative more bloody-minded, superlative most bloody-minded)

  1. Eager for or wanting blood; on the verge of becoming violent.
    • He thin swore what he wouldn't do to him iv he didn't show him whare his money was. Tom luked so wicked, an' so bloody-minded, that the little man was quite frightened. "So," sez he, "come along wid me a couple o' fields aff, an' I'll show ye a crock o' gould."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 375
  2. (UK, informal) Obstinate; stubborn.

Forms of bloodyminded

comparativemore bloodyminded
superlativemost bloodyminded

Words formed from bloodyminded

Questions about bloodyminded

What is bloodyminded the alternative form of?
Bloodyminded is the alternative form of bloody-minded.

Words near bloodyminded in the dictionary

  1. bloodyhandedly
  2. bloodyhandedness
  3. bloodying
  4. bloodying up
  5. bloodyish
  6. bloodyminded
  7. bloodymindedly
  8. bloodymindedness
  9. bloodynoun
  10. bloodynouns
  11. blooey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bloodyminded (page history and authors); bloody-minded (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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