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say it: BLUHD-thur-stee
bloodthirsty is an adjective meaning "marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed". It is pronounced /ˈblʌdˌθɝsti/ — BLUHD-thur-stee. It carries one recorded sense.
marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
“bloody-minded tyrants”
“bloodthirsty yells”
“went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bloodthirsty come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.