bloody

1. 1.

   cover with blood

   “bloody your hands”

   Broadercover

1. 1.

   extremely

   “you are bloody right”

   “Why are you so all-fired aggressive?”

   Synonymsdamnall-firedall-firedly

   intensifier

Other forms of bloody

past tense or participle

bloodied

present participle

bloodying·

third person

bloodies·

comparative or superlative

bloodier

comparative or superlative

bloodiest

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.

Questions about bloody

What does bloody mean?

bloody means "having or covered with or accompanied by blood". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bloody?

bloody has 2 syllables: blood-y. The stress falls on "blood". In IPA it is /ˈblʌdi/.

What is another word for bloody?

Close synonyms include bally, blinking, blooming, crashing, flaming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of bloody?

The recorded antonyms are bloodless.

Is bloody a common word?

bloody is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.