Sanguinary vs Cruel - What's the difference?
sanguinary | cruel | Related terms |
(label) Attended with bloodshed.
* 1625 , , "Unity in Religion"
* 1887 , :
(label) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
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* 1877 , Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia ,
(label) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
* 1913 , :
A bloodthirsty person.
The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria .
Not nice; mean; heartless.
(slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
Sanguinary is a related term of cruel.
As adjectives the difference between sanguinary and cruel
is that sanguinary is (label) attended with bloodshed while cruel is not nice; mean; heartless.As a noun sanguinary
is a bloodthirsty person.As a verb cruel is
to spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).sanguinary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)(Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- " every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
- Passion makes us brutal and sanguinary .
p. 126:
- "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; "
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with (sanguine). (term) means “optimistic”, while (term) means “bloodthirsty, gory”.Synonyms
* (attended with bloodshed) bloody, gory * (eager to shed blood) bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous * bloody, goryNoun
(sanguinaries)cruel
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.