Usually means: Enjoys inflicting pain on others.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sadist:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sadist: Merriam-Webster
  3. sadist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sadist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sadist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sadist, sadist: Wordnik
  7. sadist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sadist: Wiktionary
  9. sadist: Dictionary.com
  10. sadist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Sadist (album), Sadist (band), Sadist (disambiguation), Sadist, The Sadist (film), The Sadist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sadist: Rhymezone
  13. Sadist (m), sadist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sadist: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sadist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sadist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sadist: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.

Similar:
masochist, sadomasochist, sadistic personality disorder, algophilist, evilist, algolagnist, mysoped, algolagniac, algophilia, hedonist, more...

Opposite:
masochist

Types:
psychopath, sadomasochist, hedonist, masochist, de Sade, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, real, true, little, cosmic, vicious, cruel, notorious, brutal, criminal, male

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Similar:
masochist, sadomasochist, sadistic personality disorder, algophilist, evilist, algolagnist, mysoped, algolagniac, algophilia, hedonist, more...

Opposite:
masochist

Types:
psychopath, sadomasochist, hedonist, masochist, de Sade, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, real, true, little, cosmic, vicious, cruel, notorious, brutal, criminal, male

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark red,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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