Usually means: Deriving pleasure from others' pain.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sadistic: Merriam-Webster
  3. sadistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sadistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sadistic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sadistic, sadistic: Wordnik
  7. sadistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sadistic: Wiktionary
  9. sadistic: Dictionary.com
  10. sadistic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Sadistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sadistic: Rhymezone
  13. sadistic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sadistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. sadistic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadistic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadistic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadistic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sadistic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
adjective:  Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
adjective:  (colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.

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