adj
Meaning 1
Of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
murderous
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːdəɹəs/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɜːdɹəs/
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General-American: /ˈmɝdəɹəs/
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General-American: /ˈmɝdɹəs/
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homophone: murderess (one pronunciation)
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CMU ARPABET: M ER1 D ER0 AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of a person: intending or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty, homicidal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- murderous behaviour
- She gave me a murderous look.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: assassinous
Antonyms: nonmurderous, unmurderous
adj
Meaning 3
Of an object: used to commit murder; capable of causing death; deadly, fatal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, often
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonmurderous, unmurderous
adj
Meaning 4
Very difficult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Examples
- a murderous exam
- conditions were murderous
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: killing, arduous, challenging, nasty, difficult, effortful, hard, rough, rocky, thistly, tough, uneath, unsimple
Antonyms: as a duck takes to water, basic, easy, easy as 123, easy as ABC, easy as cake, easy as pie, easy as falling off a log, easy as rolling off a log, easy as toffee, easy-breezy, easy peasy, easy peasy Japanesey, easy peasy lemon squeezy, eath, effortless, facile, idiotproof, light, like a duck takes to water, like falling off a log, like riding a bike, like robbing a baby, like shelling peas, like shooting fish in a barrel, like taking candy from a baby, natural, painless, piss-easy, plain-sailing, simple, simple as kiss your hand, simplex, smooth, soft, straightforward, trivial, troublefree, unchallenging, uncomplicated, undemanding, undifficult, yezzy
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a homicidal rage
- murderous thugs
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: homicidal
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From murder + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns denoting possession or presence of a quality).
Across languages
Translations
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: убийствен (ubijstven) — of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers
- Japanese: 殺伐とした (satsubatsu to shita) — of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers
- Yiddish: מערדערלעך (merderlekh) — of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers
- Yiddish: מערדעריש (merderish) — of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers
- Yiddish: רציחהדיק (retsíkhedik) — of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers
- Yiddish: רצחניש (ratskhonish) — of, characterized by, or pertaining to murder or murderers
- Arabic: قَتُول (qatūl) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Aramaic: ܩܛܘܠܐ — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Old Armenian: մարդասպան (mardaspan) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Catalan: assassí — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Czech: vražedný — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Dutch: moordzuchtig — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Esperanto: murda — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Esperanto: murdema — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Finnish: murhaava — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Finnish: murhanhimoinen — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- French: meurtrier — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Georgian: სასიკვდილო (sasiḳvdilo) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- German: mörderisch — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Greek: δολοφονικός (dolofonikós) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Greek: φονικός (fonikós) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Ancient Greek: ἀνδροδάικτος (androdáiktos) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Ancient Greek: φονικός (phonikós) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Hindi: घातक (ghātak) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Hindi: हिंसक (hinsak) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Hungarian: gyilkos — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Italian: letale — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Italian: micidiale — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Italian: mortale — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Italian: omicida — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Italian: omicidiario — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Japanese: 殺伐とした (satsubatsu to shita) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Latin: internecīvus — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Latvian: slepkavīgs — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Malayalam: കൊലപാതക (kolapātaka) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Middle English: dedly — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Norwegian Bokmål: morderisk — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mordarisk — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Portuguese: homicida — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Portuguese: assassino — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Romanian: asasin — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Romanian: ucigaș — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Romanian: ucigător — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Russian: крова́вый (krovávyj) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Sanskrit: हिंस्र (hiṃsra) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Serbo-Croatian: у̏битачан — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀бојит — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Serbo-Croatian: ȕbitačan — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Serbo-Croatian: ùbojit — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Spanish: asesino — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Spanish: homicida — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Swedish: mordisk — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Yiddish: מערדעריש (merderish) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Yiddish: רציחהדיק (retsíkhedik) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Yiddish: רצחניש (ratskhonish) — likely to commit murder — see also homicidal
- Aramaic: ܩܛܘܠܐ — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Catalan: assassí — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- French: meurtrier — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Georgian: სასიკვდილო (sasiḳvdilo) — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Hungarian: gyilkos — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Italian: micidiale — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Serbo-Croatian: у̏битачан — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Serbo-Croatian: ȕbitačan — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Swedish: dödlig — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Yiddish: מערדערלעך (merderlekh) — used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal
- Bulgarian: много труден (mnogo truden) — very difficult
- German: mörderisch — very difficult
- Greek: φονικός (fonikós) — very difficult
- Norwegian Bokmål: morderisk — very difficult
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mordarisk — very difficult
- Swedish: mördande — very difficult