gory
/ˈɡɔːri
/adjective (gorier, goriest)
1Involving or showing violence and bloodshed: a gory horror film...
- These days, to impress anyone at all, a heist film requires either heaps of brutal, gory violence or a really clever plot.
- Moore, however, has not filled this film with scenes of gory violence.
- There's not more than a couple of really gory and violent moments that, of course, Brian does very well.
Synonyms
grisly, gruesome, violent, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, savage;
ghastly, frightful, horrid, horrifying, fearful, hideous, macabre, spine-chilling, horrible, horrendous, grim, awful, dire, dreadful, terrible, horrific;
disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, revolting, repellent, sickening, distressing, shocking, appalling, abominable, loathsome, abhorrent, odious, monstrous, unspeakable
informal blood-and-thunder, blood-and-guts, sick, sick-making, gut-churning, gross
archaic sanguinary, disgustful, loathly
1.1Covered in blood.I have this big fear of being all rank and sweaty in that hospital bed, all gory and blooded up down below like some kind of murder scene....
- People think that nursing isn't for the faint of heart because of the blood and other gory things.
- Each of the wounds were gory holes of half-clotted blood, tufts of fur, and the white substance of fat.
Synonyms
bloody, bloodstained, blood-soaked, blood-spattered
Phrases
the gory details
Derivatives
gorily
- For much of the past 200 years, this former British penal colony has been a dumping ground for a nation's bad conscience about itself, and known gorily as a ‘hell on earth’.
- The screams of tormented toddlers rang out yesterday, as she droned gorily to a close.
- His ‘punk opera,’ on the other hand, is based on a real-life near-death experience brought about by a perineal abscess, and crammed with a surfeit of gorily realistic details.
goriness
- This 60-year-old B-grade horror classic harks back to an era when the power to scare came by implication rather than gruesome goriness.
- By Golly if the dead were rising from their graves and walking into town in all their goriness it would have been all around the Middle East by teatime.
- While some simply can't stomach this, others positively revel in the goriness of it all.
Rhymes
- from stem to stern
- from strength
- from the (bottom of one's) heart
- from the bottom up
- from the dead
- from the floor
- from the ground up
- from the horse's mouth
- from thence
- from thenceforth
- from the top
- from the (very) first
- from the word go
- from time to time
- from top to bottom
- from top to toe
- from whence
- frond
- frondage
- Fronde
- fronded
- frondescence
- frondeur
- frondose
- frons