Meaning of "bloody" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF BLOODY

bloody  [ˈblʌdɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLOODY

Bloody is a verb and can also act as an adjective and an adverb.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bloody in English.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES BLOODY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bloody

Bloody is a commonly used expletive attributive in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth countries, including Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Anglophone Caribbean, Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan.

Definition of bloody in the English dictionary

The first definition of bloody in the dictionary is covered or stained with blood. Other definition of bloody is resembling or composed of blood. Bloody is also marked by much killing and bloodshed.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLOODY

PRESENT

Present

I bloody

you bloody

he/she/it bloodies

we bloody

you bloody

they bloody

Present continuous

I am bloodying

you are bloodying

he/she/it is bloodying

we are bloodying

you are bloodying

they are bloodying

Present perfect

I have bloodied

you have bloodied

he/she/it has bloodied

we have bloodied

you have bloodied

they have bloodied

Present perfect continuous

I have been bloodying

you have been bloodying

he/she/it has been bloodying

we have been bloodying

you have been bloodying

they have been bloodying

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I bloodied

you bloodied

he/she/it bloodied

we bloodied

you bloodied

they bloodied

Past continuous

I was bloodying

you were bloodying

he/she/it was bloodying

we were bloodying

you were bloodying

they were bloodying

Past perfect

I had bloodied

you had bloodied

he/she/it had bloodied

we had bloodied

you had bloodied

they had bloodied

Past perfect continuous

I had been bloodying

you had been bloodying

he/she/it had been bloodying

we had been bloodying

you had been bloodying

they had been bloodying

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will bloody

you will bloody

he/she/it will bloody

we will bloody

you will bloody

they will bloody

Future continuous

I will be bloodying

you will be bloodying

he/she/it will be bloodying

we will be bloodying

you will be bloodying

they will be bloodying

Future perfect

I will have bloodied

you will have bloodied

he/she/it will have bloodied

we will have bloodied

you will have bloodied

they will have bloodied

Future perfect continuous

I will have been bloodying

you will have been bloodying

he/she/it will have been bloodying

we will have been bloodying

you will have been bloodying

they will have been bloodying

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would bloody

you would bloody

he/she/it would bloody

we would bloody

you would bloody

they would bloody

Conditional continuous

I would be bloodying

you would be bloodying

he/she/it would be bloodying

we would be bloodying

you would be bloodying

they would be bloodying

Conditional perfect

I would have bloody

you would have bloody

he/she/it would have bloody

we would have bloody

you would have bloody

they would have bloody

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been bloodying

you would have been bloodying

he/she/it would have been bloodying

we would have been bloodying

you would have been bloodying

they would have been bloodying

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you bloody
we let´s bloody
you bloody

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to bloody

Past participle

bloodied

Present Participle

bloodying

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BLOODY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bloody» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of bloody

barbarous · bleeding · blinking · bloodstained · blooming · brutal · confounded · cruel · cut-throat · damned · deuced · ferocious · fierce · flaming · freaking · frigging · fucking · infernal · raw · rotten · ruddy · sanguinary · savage · vicious · warlike · wretched

TRANSLATION OF BLOODY

Find out the translation of bloody to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bloody from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bloody» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 血腥的
• Translator English - Spanish: sangriento
• English: bloody
• Translator English - Hindi: खूनी
• Translator English - Arabic: دَمَوِيّ
• Translator English - Russian: кровавый
• Translator English - Portuguese: sangrento
• Translator English - Bengali: রক্তাক্ত
• Translator English - French: sanglant
• Translator English - Malay: berdarah
• Translator English - German: blutig
• Translator English - Japanese: 血まみれの
• Translator English - Korean: 피투성이의
• Translator English - Javanese: Getih
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đẫm máu
• Translator English - Tamil: இரத்தம் தோய்ந்த
• Translator English - Marathi: रक्तरंजित
• Translator English - Turkish: kanlı
• Translator English - Italian: sanguinoso
• Translator English - Polish: krwawy
• Translator English - Ukrainian: кривавий
• Translator English - Romanian: sângeros
• Translator English - Greek: αιματηρός
• Translator English - Afrikaans: bloedige
• Translator English - Swedish: blodig
• Translator English - Norwegian: blodig

10 QUOTES WITH «BLOODY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bloody.

1

Edward Abbey

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

2

Christine Baranski

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

3

Victoria Beckham

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

4

Jeffrey Bernard

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

5

Jeffrey Bernard

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

6

Anthony Bourdain

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

7

Billy Bragg

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

8

Eric Bristow

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

9

Geraldine Brooks

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

10

John Callen

As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOODY»

Discover the use of bloody in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bloody and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

A dark and bloody ground

Tour. Kentucky never more deserved its Indian appellation A Dark and Bloody Ground than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985.

Darcy O'Brien, 1993

Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of ...

Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber.

L. A. Meyer, 2004

Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s ...

Drawing on an impressive array of sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents and SNCC activists, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells, for the first time, the remarkable full story of the Lowndes ...

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, 2009

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King

This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they'll die for you and in the next will order your ...

Reymundo Sanchez, 2007

Bloody Horowitz

Collects fourteen horror tales, including the story of a teen gang leader taken for a ride by a deadly car with a mind of its own, a boy haunted by a phantom cobra, and a reality television show pitting teenagers against adults.

Anthony Horowitz, 2010

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and ...

My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death.

Nora Titone, 2010

Mary, Bloody Mary

Blood is thicker than water – unless the King decrees othewise.

Carolyn Meyer, 2011

Bloody Liggie

Liggie Tanner, with an axe, Gave her step-mum forty whacks. When she saw what she had done . . . "Bloody" Liggie, the media labelled her. She was locked away but broke out and drowned crossing a river. So . . . was this the end of Liggie?

Ken Catran, 2003

Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness

Paul Angle was fascinated by this more-than-fifty-year history, and his account of violence has become a classic.

Angle, 1992

Bloody Foreigners

The 19th century brought huge numbers of Italians, Irish, Jews (from Russia and Poland mainly), Germans and Poles. This book draws all their stories together in a compelling narrative.

Robert Winder, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOODY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bloody is used in the context of the following news items.

Five good spots for bloody marys in Des Moines

Bloody marys are to breakfast what the butter cow is to the State Fair — a necessary component. And summer is scientifically proven to be the ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»

7-Year-Old Chicago Boy Among 7 Killed in Bloody Weekend

At least 40 people were wounded and seven were killed in Chicago over the weekend, including a seven-year-old boy, leaving police and ... «TIME, Jul 15»

"It's bloody magic."

Now he gets to enjoy the satisfaction and pleasure of seeing pure joy on the faces of countless proud Samoans. «The Press, Jul 15»

Borders hospital slammed over bloody mops and boots

A HOSPITAL has been ordered to tighten its infection control procedures after inspectors found bloodstained mops and footwear. «Scotsman, Jul 15»

Tour de France becomes a mess of bloody crashes

HUY, Belgium — Spanish veteran Joaquim Rodriguez won the crash-marred third stage of the Tour de France on Monday, with British rider ... «New York Post, Jul 15»

10 dead, 53 wounded in shootings over bloody Independence Day …

The Fourth of July weekend turned into an explosion of violence across Chicago, where shootings left 10 people dead — including a 7-year-old ... «Homicide Watch Chicago, Jul 15»

“We had a bloody couple of days:” Chief Flynn talks about …

“We certainly had a bloody several days over the Fourth of July holiday. None of these cases are connected. As far as we can tell, nearly every ... «fox6now.com, Jul 15»

Bloody Fourth of July weekend in Cleveland is the work of 'urban …

The bloody holiday weekend began Friday night on East 92nd Street when a 7-year-old boy playing outside his home was shot in the hand. «cleveland.com, Jul 15»

Mike Dolce on IV ban: 'Someone would die because of that'

Bloody Elbow, for MMA and UFC news ... Bloody Elbow Grappling · Bloody Elbow Media · MMA Resources · MMA ... More from Bloody Elbow. «Bloody Elbow, Jul 15»

Graphic Warning: Group Mocks Man Beaten Unconscious, Bloody

A very disturbing video has been shared by NYPost.com of a group of young people mocking an unconscious and bloodied man at Fountain ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»