slaughterous

1. 1.

   accompanied by bloodshed

   “this bitter and sanguinary war”

   Synonymsgorysanguinarysanguineousbutcherly

   Similarbloody

Questions about slaughterous

What does slaughterous mean?

slaughterous means "accompanied by bloodshed".

How many syllables are in slaughterous?

slaughterous has 3 syllables: slaugh-te-rous. The stress falls on "slaugh".

What is another word for slaughterous?

Close synonyms include gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, butcherly. 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 slaughterous a common word?

slaughterous 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.