meaning of sanguinary
1. Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle.
2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.
3. The yarrow.
4. The Sanguinaria.
5. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G. W. Johnson