bloody: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 12 letter points · starts with B · ends with Y
Meaning of bloody
adj
Covered in blood.
Example: All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
Characterised by bloodshed.
Example: There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
- Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, informal, mildly, vulgar
Used as an intensifier.
Example: Traffic in central London was a bloody mess this morning.
- dated
Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
Listed forms: bloodier, bloodiest, bloudy.
Source: Wiktionary — bloody.
adv
- Australia, India, Ireland, New-Zealand, Newfoundland, South-Africa, UK, informal, mildly, vulgar
Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or for emphasis.
Listed forms: bloudy.
Source: Wiktionary — bloody.
verb
- transitive
To stain with blood.
Example: The butcher often bloodied his apron in the course of his work.
- transitive
To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
- transitive
To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).
Listed forms: bloodies, bloodying, bloodied, bloudy.
Source: Wiktionary — bloody.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for bloody.
adjective
informal intensifiers
adverb
extremely
- damn
- all-fired
- all-firedly
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is bloody in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of bloody
B(3) + L(1) + O(1) + O(1) + D(2) + Y(4) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of bloody
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from bloody
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