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bloody
[bluhd-ee] 
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bloody
[bluhd-ee]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleeding |
| Synonyms: | blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguinary, sanguine, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded |
| Main Entry: | damned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, unwelcome |
| Synonyms: | accursed, all-fired, anathematized, bad, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed*, bloody*, blooming, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, dang, darn, darned, despicable, detestable, doggone, done for, doomed, dratted, execrable, gone to blazes, infamous, infernal, loathsome, lost, lousy, reprobate, revolting, unhappy, voodooed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, cherished, favored, likeable, loveable, nice, praiseworthy, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complete, total |
| Synonyms: | absolute, bloody, downright, entire, final, out-and-out, outright, perfect, sure, thorough, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, whole |
| Antonyms: | continuing, enduring, incomplete, unfinished |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing end of life |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, dangerous, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruthless, savage, slaying, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | animating, energizing, harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | decidedly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | certainly |
| Synonyms: | absolutely, bloody*, by all means, clearly, decisively, determinedly, distinctly, downright, emphatically, flat out, for a fact, in spades, no catch, no holds barred, no ifs ands or buts, no mistake, no strings attached, of course, positively, powerful, real, really, right, straight out, strongly, sure, surely, terribly, terrifically, unequivocally, unmistakably |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grisly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, awful, blood-stained, bloody, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross*, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, yucky |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | highly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | very, well |
| Synonyms: | awful, awfully, bloody*, but good, decidedly, deeply, eminently, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, extremely, greatly, hugely, immensely, jolly, mighty, mucho, notably, parlous, plenty, powerful, profoundly, real, really, remarkably, right, so, so much, strikingly, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, terrifically, too much*, tremendously, vastly, very much |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lurid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shocking, gruesome |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bloody, deep, disgusting, distinct, exaggerated, extreme, fiery, ghastly, gory, graphic, grim, grisly, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, livid, low-down, macabre, melodramatic, obscene, off-color, offensive, purple*, racy, raunchy, revolting, rough, salty, sanguine*, savage, sensational, sinister, startling, terrible, terrifying, violent, vivid, yellow* |
| Antonyms: | clean, humble, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not fully cooked |
| Synonyms: | bloody, half-cooked, half-raw, moderately done, nearly raw, not done, rarely done, red, undercooked, underdone |
| Antonyms: | well-done |
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