1. (a.) Bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle\.

2. (a.) Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.

3. (n.) The yarrow.

4. (n.) The Sanguinaria.

Draconian Tartarean aggressive animal antagonistic anthropophagous atrocious barbaric barbarous battling beastly bellicose belligerent bestial blood-spattered bloodstained bloodthirsty bloody bloody-minded brutal brutalized brute brutish cannibalistic chauvinist chauvinistic combative contentious cruel cruel-hearted cutthroat demoniac demoniacal devilish diabolic enemy ensanguined fell feral ferine ferocious fiendish fiendlike fierce fighting full of fight gory grim hawkish heartless hellish homicidal hostile infernal inhuman inhumane inimical jingo jingoish jingoist jingoistic kill-crazy malign malignant martial merciless militant militaristic military murdering murderous noncivilized offensive pitiless pugnacious quarrelsome red-handed remorseless ruthless saber-rattling sadistic sanguine sanguineous satanic savage scrappy self-destructive sharkish slaughterous slavering soldierlike soldierly subhuman suicidal tameless trigger-happy truculent unchristian uncivilized unfriendly ungentle unhuman unpacific unpeaceable unpeaceful untamed vicious warlike warmongering warring wild wolfish