gory
Other forms: goriest; gorier; gorily
Use the word gory to describe something that features a lot of bloodshed and violence, like a horror movie in which victims are axed to death by a madman. Some people love gory movies like that, and others refuse to watch them.
Something that is gory often involves both violence and bloodshed, but it can also describe something that is merely blood, like the gory photographs depicting a root canal procedure in a dental assistant textbook. Gory can describe unpleasant, embarrassing things, like saying of your brother’s bad behavior over the holidays, “I’ll spare you the gory details about his meltdown at the family Christmas party.”
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covered with blood
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accompanied by bloodshed
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synonyms:
butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous
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bloody
having or covered with or accompanied by blood
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bloody
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Vocabulary lists containing gory
In this prequel to Walk Two Moons, thirteen-year-old Mary Lou Finney documents an eventful summer.
In this mystery, middle-schoolers Calder and Petra get caught up in the search for a stolen painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
This novel, set in Elizabethan England, tells the story of an orphan boy who attempts to steal a copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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