murderous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mur=der=ous
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

murderous, a. 

 Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell; savage; cruel.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

murderous, adj. (of a person, weapon, action, etc.) capable of, intending, or involving murder or great harm.

Derivative

murderously adv. murderousness n.

THESAURUS

murderous

Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, arduous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, deadly, deathly, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devastating, devilish, diabolic, difficult, exhausting, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, gory, harrowing, hellish, homicidal, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intolerable, kill-crazy, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, merciless, mortal, murdering, noncivilized, pitiless, red-handed, rigorous, ruinous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, strenuous, stressful, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, truculent, unbearable, unchristian, uncivilized, ungentle, unhuman, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish

ROGET THESAURUS

murderous

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.