<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>eager to shed blood; murderous: to capture a bloodthirsty criminal.</li><li>enjoying or encouraging bloodshed or violence, especially as a spectator or clamorous partisan: the bloodthirsty urgings of the fight fans.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li>pitiless, merciless, bloody, brutal, savage, homicidal</li></ul>