bloody-minded

1. 1.

   stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

   “unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders”

   Synonymscantankerous

   Similarstubborn

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsbloodthirstysanguinary

   Similarbloody

Questions about bloody-minded

What does bloody-minded mean?

bloody-minded means "stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bloody-minded?

bloody-minded has 4 syllables: bloo-dy--min-ded. The stress falls on "dy-".

What is another word for bloody-minded?

Close synonyms include cantankerous, bloodthirsty, sanguinary. 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.

Is bloody-minded a common word?

bloody-minded is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.