Dictionary Definition
murderous adj : capable of or conducive to
bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue"; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous
thugs" [syn: cutthroat, homicidal]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
- murderous behaviour
- Very difficult.
- a murderous exam
Translations
likely to commit murder, homicidal
- Catalan: assassí
- German: mörderisch
- Spanish: asesino
very difficult
- German: mörderisch
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous,
arduous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, deadly, deathly, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devastating, devilish, diabolic, difficult, exhausting, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, gory, harrowing, hellish, homicidal, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intolerable, kill-crazy,
killing, lethal, malign, malignant, merciless, mortal, murdering, noncivilized, pitiless, red-handed, rigorous, ruinous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, self-destructive,
sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, strenuous, stressful, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, truculent, unbearable, unchristian, uncivilized, ungentle, unhuman, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish