More eager to hurt people or see violence; more cruel and violent than something or someone else.
Comparative form of 'bloodthirsty,' using the standard English comparative suffix '-er.' The base adjective 'bloodthirsty' emerged in the 16th century as an intensified descriptor of savage behavior.
Comparative adjectives like this show how language lets us rank abstract ideas—you can't measure blood-desire in liters, but English lets us say one tyrant is 'bloodthirstier' than another. It's how we make judgments about cruelty.
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