slaughterous
Adjective: 1. Characterized by or involving great bloodshed and killing; extremely violent and destructive. This word describes actions, events, or periods marked by extensive, often brutal, slaughter.
The adjective "slaughterous" is a formal and literary term. It is used to modify nouns describing conflicts, events, or actions to emphasize their exceptionally bloody and murderous nature. It conveys a sense of carnage and mass killing.
- The historian described the decade as a slaughterous period of civil war.
- They retreated from the slaughterous battlefield.
- The tyrant's reign was remembered for its slaughterous purges.
- In a metaphorical sense: While typically used for literal killing, it can be applied metaphorically to describe something devastatingly destructive.
- The company could not survive the slaughterous competition in the market.
- Slaughter (noun/verb): The act of killing animals for food, or killing people violently and in large numbers.
- Slaughterer (noun): A person who slaughters animals or, archaically, people.
- Slaughterhouse (noun): A place where animals are killed for food.
- Bloody
- Sanguinary
- Gory
- Bloodthirsty
- Murderous
- Peaceful
- Harmless
- Nonviolent
Note: "Slaughterous" itself is not commonly used in fixed idioms. However, it relates to the concept in the following common expressions: - Like lambs to the slaughter: Used to describe people going innocently and helplessly into a dangerous or deadly situation. - The untrained recruits were sent into battle like lambs to the slaughter.
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accompanied by bloodshed
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this bitter and sanguinary war
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