a. | 1. | Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; |
2. | Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. | |
n. | 1. | (Bot.) The yarrow. |
Adj. | 1. | sanguinary - accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" |
2. | sanguinary - marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |