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sadistic

/səˈdɪstɪk/

sadistic adjective: delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.

Adjective

sadistic (comparative more sadistic, superlative most sadistic)

  1. Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
    • Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club
  2. Of behaviour which takes pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
  3. (colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.

sadistic meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Nepali and Arabic

sadistic in Hindi

of a person
परपीड़क parpīṛak
of behaviour
परपीड़क parpīṛak

sadistic in Malayalam

barbarous, callous, vicious
വിദ്രോഹവാസനയുള്ള, പെെശാചികക്രൂരതയിൽ ആനന്ദമടയുന്ന, ക്രൂരതയിൽ ആനന്ദം അനുഭവിക്കുന്ന, കൂരം, നിർദ്ദയം, കൊടു

sadistic in Nepali

सैडिस्टिक

sadistic in Arabic

of a person
سادى

Examples of sadistic in a sentence

  • People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
  • They crane their neck to specularise the gory event with sadistic pleasure.
  • These goretastic good-ole-boys unloaded with a sadistic glee; they shot up that poor old car with a real joyful vigor.

All 11 example sentences with sadistic

Synonyms of sadistic

22 more synonymsFewer synonyms

All synonyms of sadistic

Forms of sadistic

comparativemore sadistic
superlativemost sadistic

Origin of sadistic

From sadist + -ic.

Words formed from sadistic

Phrases with sadistic

Questions about sadistic

What does sadistic mean?
Sadistic means delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
What is sadistic in Hindi?
Sadistic in Hindi is परपीड़क (parpīṛak). See Sadistic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sadistic?
Sadistic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sadistic?
Sadistic is pronounced /səˈdɪstɪk/.

Words near sadistic in the dictionary

  1. sadirons
  2. sadis
  3. sadism
  4. sadisms
  5. sadist
  6. sadistic
  7. sadistic personality disorder
  8. sadistic personality disorders
  9. sadistically
  10. sadisticness
  11. sadists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sadistic (page history and authors); sadistic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sadistic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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