SANGUINARY

adj. 1 bloodthirsty, cruel, brutal, brutish, gory, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, pitiless, heartless, savage, barbarous, slaughterous, grim, fell, murderous, homicidal The axe murder was the most sanguinary crime that the division had ever been required to investigate 2 bloody, sanguineous, sanguinolent I am unsure how I survived such a sanguinary battle