Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
(of conflict) within a group or organization;
- Example: "an internecine feud among proxy holders"2.
characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides;
- Example: "internecine war"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Internecine \In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly,
murderous, fr. internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter
between + necare to kill; akin to Gr. ? dead. See
Necromancy.]
1. Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually
destructive.
[1913 Webster]
Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the
streets with blood. --Motley.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to internal conflicts within a group; as,
internecine quarrels.
Syn: intramural.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
internecine
adj 1: (of conflict) within a group or organization; "an
internecine feud among proxy holders"
2: characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides;
"internecine war"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "internecine":
baneful, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, death-bringing,
deathful, deathly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory,
desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous,
doomful, fatal, fateful, feral, fratricidal, killing, lethal,
malign, malignant, mortal, nihilist, nihilistic, pernicious,
ravaging, ruining, ruinous, savage, self-destructive,
subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish,
vandalistic, virulent, wasteful, wasting, withering