BLOODY (bloodied, bloodier, bloodiest)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloody mean?
• BLOODY (adjective)
The adjective BLOODY has 2 senses:
1. having or covered with or accompanied by blood
2. (used of persons) informal intensifiers
Familiarity information: BLOODY used as an adjective is rare.
• BLOODY (verb)
The verb BLOODY has 1 sense:
1. cover with blood
Familiarity information: BLOODY used as a verb is very rare.
• BLOODY (adverb)
The adverb BLOODY has 1 sense:
1. extremely
Familiarity information: BLOODY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLOODY (adjective)
Meaning:
Having or covered with or accompanied by blood
Context examples:
a bloody nose / your scarf is all bloody / the effects will be violent and probably bloody / a bloody fight
Similar:
red (red with or characterized by blood)
internecine; mutually ruinous (characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides)
butcherly; gory; sanguinary; sanguineous; slaughterous (accompanied by bloodshed)
homicidal; murderous (characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being)
crimson; red; violent (characterized by violence or bloodshed)
bloodthirsty; bloody-minded; sanguinary (marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed)
bloodsucking (drawing blood from the body of another)
bloodstained; gory (covered with blood)
bloodied (having been caused to bleed)
blood-filled (containing blood)
Also:
merciless; unmerciful (having or showing no mercy)
Antonym:
bloodless (free from blood or bloodshed)
Meaning:
(used of persons) informal intensifiers
Synonyms:
fucking; crashing; blooming; bally; bloody; blinking; flaming
Context examples:
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance / a bloody fool / a crashing bore / you flaming idiot
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
• BLOODY (verb)
Meaning:
Cover with blood
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
bloody your hands
Hypernyms (to "bloody" is one way to...):
cover; spread over (form a cover over)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
• BLOODY (adverb)
Meaning:
Extremely
Synonyms:
all-fired; bloody; damn
Context examples:
you are bloody right / Why are you so all-fired aggressive?
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
