homicidal
/hɒmɪˈsʌɪd(ə)l
/adjective
Capable of or tending towards murder; murderous: he had homicidal tendencies...
- He is not a homicidal maniac, but a violent, evil man made even more so by his addiction to unnamed drugs.
- If we keep telling this homicidal maniac what we're doing as police, he's going to be one step ahead.
- I know without a doubt that if provoked my mother could become a homicidal maniac in defence of her animals.
Synonyms
murderous, violent, brutal, savage, ferocious, fierce, vicious, bloody, bloodthirsty, barbarous, barbaric, cruel;
mortal, deadly, lethal, death-dealing
dated cut-throat
archaic sanguinary, fell
Derivatives
homicidally
- We have our doubts about a vaccine that causes humans to go homicidally psychotic.
- On the run from homicidally vengeful Sheriff Rydell, whose brother they killed earlier, the ‘heroes’ convene at a roadside hotel.
- ‘I don't know whether to kill you first and then her, her first or both of you together,’ she mused homicidally.
Rhymes
- gesture
- gesundheit
- get
- geta
- get a bang out of
- get a fix on
- get a grip
- get ahead
- get ahead of oneself
- get a life
- get a line on
- get a load of
- get along
- get a move on
- get a (or the) feel for (or of)
- get a room
- get around
- get a shift on
- get at
- get-at-able
- get away
- getaway
- get away with
- get away with (blue) murder
- get a wiggle on