murderous

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/ˈmɜːdəɹəs/

adjective

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adjective
Showing a wish or readiness to kill.
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adjective
Extra detail
Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.

Examples

Nothing can stop Fadil from executing his murderous plan.
This only increased his desire to be revenged on the murderous duke.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.
Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
Very difficult.

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In context

His murderous gaze frightened her.
She gave me a murderous look.
a murderous exam

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Aſſaſſinat: m. A murther, or murtherous act committed for gaine, or in hope of a revvard; alſo, a ſuddaine aſſault, made of ſet purpoſe, and vvith a murtherous intent, although th' aſſaulted be not killed.
1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Assassinat”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature G, recto, column 2
Every time I heard the bell strike, that denotes the time on board a ship, I full of terror counted the hours until four o'clock; feeling sure that when that hour came, my enemies would begin their murderous attack.
1878 October, “A Tussle with Yellow Jack”, in G[eorge] Bampfield, editor, S. Andrew’s Magazine, volume I, number 10, London: Burns & Oates, […], →OCLC, page 1
While Harley had been in no way responsible for Pelton's murderous attack upon Yesler, public opinion held him to account.
1909, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 18, in Ridgway of Montana
[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, page 9]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2017
Is any man loth to leave his priſon? or to remove his dwelling from cruel enemies? or to ſcape the hands of murderous robbers? Do we take the world indeed for our priſon? our cruel, ſpoyling, murderous foe? and yet we are loth to leave it?
1659, Richard Baxter, “Reproving Our Unwillingness to Die”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 8th edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV, section V, page 603

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Origin

adjective

From murder + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns denoting possession or presence of a quality).

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adjective

The villain had a blank expression as he aimed the gun at the sleeping victim.