Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bloodthirster

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: blood-thirster
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who is bloodthirsty.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From blood + thirster.

Inflected Forms

bloodthirsters (plural)

Questions

What does bloodthirster mean?: A person who is bloodthirsty.
Where does bloodthirster come from?: From blood + thirster.

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