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sanguinary

Syllables: san·gui·nar·y/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/US/ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/

sanguinary adjective: involving bloodshed.

Adjective

sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)

  1. Involving bloodshed.
    • We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview)
    • "[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XIII, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    bloody, gory
  2. Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
    • Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.c. 1730, William Broome
    • "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"1877, Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia, page 126
  3. Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
    • I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
    • Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […], that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI
    Synonyms:
    bloodsoaked, bloody, gory

Noun

sanguinary (plural sanguinaries)

  1. A bloodthirsty person.
  2. The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).

sanguinary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

sanguinary in Hindi

sanguinary
ख़ून-आशाम xūn-āśām

sanguinary in Tamil

குருதிக்கொலை சார்ந்த, குருதிக்களரியான, இரத்தம், சிந்துகிற, குருதிக்கொலையில் மகிழ்கிற, இரத்த வெறிகொண்ட

sanguinary in Urdu

خونی

sanguinary in Malayalam

രക്തം ചിന്തുന്ന, ചോരപ്പുഴ ഒഴകുന്ന, രക്തസംബന്ധമായ, രക്തനിറമുള്ള

Examples of sanguinary in a sentence

  • In the year a.d. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years a.d. 645–50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty...
  • We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 117:

Synonyms of sanguinary

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Forms of sanguinary

Adjective
comparativemore sanguinary
superlativemost sanguinary
Noun
pluralsanguinaries

Origin of sanguinary

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.

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Questions about sanguinary

What does sanguinary mean?
Sanguinary means involving bloodshed.
What is sanguinary in Hindi?
Sanguinary in Hindi is ख़ून-आशाम (xūn-āśām). See Sanguinary meaning in Hindi.
How do you use sanguinary in a sentence?
In the year a.d. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.
What part of speech is sanguinary?
Sanguinary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce sanguinary?
Sanguinary is pronounced /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/ (UK).

Words near sanguinary in the dictionary

  1. sanguinarias
  2. sanguinaries
  3. sanguinarily
  4. sanguinarine
  5. sanguinariness
  6. sanguinary
  7. sanguinary ant
  8. sanguinary ants
  9. sanguine
  10. sanguined
  11. sanguineless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sanguinary (page history and authors); ख़ून-आशाम (Hindi) (page history and authors); sanguinary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sanguinary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sanguinary (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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