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Bloodthirsty vs Leonine - What's the difference?

bloodthirsty | leonine | Related terms |

Bloodthirsty is a related term of leonine.


As adjectives the difference between bloodthirsty and leonine

is that bloodthirsty is eager to resort to violence while leonine is .

bloodthirsty

English

Alternative forms

* blood-thirsty (obsolete) * bloud-thirsty (obsolete) * bloudthirsty (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Eager to resort to violence.
  • Characterized by massive bloodshed.

    • leonine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.
    • His leonine face scared the young children.
  • * 1887 , , What I Remember, Volume 2 , chapter XIV ( ebook):
    • He [Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.