homicidal
Bent on killing
Homicidal means having to do with killing another person, or inclined toward such killing.
A homicidal maniac is someone driven to murder.
Homicidal rage is anger intense enough to kill.
The detective investigated the homicidal act.
The word applies both to actual killers and to murderous states of mind: I was feeling homicidal after the third delay.
Inclined to kill
- bloodthirstyEager to kill
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
- savageFierce and untamed
- ferociousExtremely violent or aggressive
ruthless · merciless · sadistic · barbaric · cruel · pitiless · remorseless · cold-blooded
Mentally disturbed, irrational
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
- psychopathicDevoid of empathy
- sociopathicLacking conscience or empathy
- disturbedEmotionally or mentally unsettled
unstable · insane · maniacal · paranoid · delusional · antisocial · psychotic · unbalanced
Causing or capable of death
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- fatalCausing death or ruin
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
perilous · destructive · harmful · treacherous · sinister · malevolent · baleful · ominous
Planned before acting
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- plottingDevising a secret plan
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- maliciousMeaning to do harm
vindictive · vengeful · spiteful · deliberate · cold-blooded · methodical · planned · stalking
murderous
Inclined to kill
- bloodthirstyEager to kill
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
- savageFierce and untamed
ferocious · ruthless · merciless · sadistic · barbaric · cruel · pitiless · remorseless · cold-blooded · inhuman
deranged
Mentally disturbed, irrational
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
- psychopathicDevoid of empathy
- sociopathicLacking conscience or empathy
disturbed · unstable · insane · maniacal · paranoid · delusional · antisocial · psychotic · unbalanced · obsessed
lethal
Causing or capable of death
threatening · perilous · destructive · harmful · treacherous · sinister · malevolent · baleful · ominous · life-threatening
premeditated
Planned before acting
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- plottingDevising a secret plan
- schemingCrafty and calculating
malicious · vindictive · vengeful · spiteful · deliberate · cold-blooded · methodical · planned · stalking · targeted
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- malevolencemalevolence, cruelty, viciousness, malice, spite
- deathlydead, deadly, deathly, deceased, dying
- violenceviolence, physical attack, brutality, physical violence, aggression
homicidallife-giving
Sustaining or restoring vitality
life-affirming · nurturing · protective · benevolent · caring
homicidalgentle
Soft and kind
peaceful · peaceable · kindhearted · tenderhearted · warmhearted
homicidalharmless
Causing no injury
peaceful · nonviolent · nonthreatening · peaceable · pacific
- homicide investigationExamining a killing officially
- homicide detectiveOfficer solving unlawful deaths
- negligent homicideCausing death by recklessness
- homicide casesInvestigations into unlawful killings
- homicide rateKillings per population unit
- homicide unitLaw enforcement death investigators