bloodthirster

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noun

A person who is bloodthirsty.

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Meanings

nounbloodthirster (plural bloodthirsters)

plural bloodthirsters

  1. A person who is bloodthirsty.

    The Thermidorian majority disparaged the authoritarian revolutionary government and referred to the sans-culottes as "cannibals" and "bloodthirsters" for conspiring with the Jacobin "despots" in terrorizing middle-class citizens of both sexes, the honnêtes gens.

    1980, Carol R. Berkin, Women, War, and Revolution, page 128

Origin

From blood + thirster.

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APA

bloodthirster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bloodthirster

MLA

“bloodthirster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bloodthirster. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bloodthirster,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bloodthirster.

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