bloody
bloody (blŭdʹē) adjective
bloodier, bloodiest
1. Stained with blood.
2. Of, characteristic of, or containing blood.
3. Accompanied by or giving rise to bloodshed: a bloody fight.
4. Bloodthirsty.
5. Suggesting the color of blood; blood-red.
6. Used as an intensive: "Everyone wants to have a convict in his bloody family tree" (Robert Hughes).
adverb
Used as an intensive: bloody well right.
verb, transitive
bloodied, bloodying, bloodies
1. To stain, spot, or color with or as if with blood.
2. To make bleed, as by injuring or wounding: The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.
bloodʹily adverb
bloodʹiness noun
Synonyms: bloody, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous. The central meaning shared by these adjectives is "attended by or causing bloodshed": a bloody battle; a gory murder; a sanguinary struggle; a sanguineous victory.