Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- adj. Full of or characterized by bloodshed and violence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Covered with gore or clotted blood; smeared with blood.
- Bloody; murderous.
- Resembling gore; bloody-looking.
- In heraldry, same as gored.
Wiktionary
- adj. covered with blood, very bloody
- adj. unpleasant
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Covered with gore or clotted blood.
- adj. Bloody; murderous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. covered with blood
- adj. accompanied by bloodshed
Examples
“The answer my book will flesh out in gory detail: signaling.”
The Education of Educators, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In races across the country, Democrats will give voters the opportunity to examine Republicans in gory detail -- up close and personal -- before Election Day.”
“A chimpanzee population split into two, and, over time, one group wiped out the other, in gory episodes of territorial attack and cannibalism.”
“PS: Everything about climate change science that you might want to know, in gory scientific detail: RealClimate index.”
“When Julie reads, the issue presents itself in gory detail and sounds like fingernails drawn down a blackboard.”
“How many mornings have I found the leavings of his nightly hunts in gory little piles on the porch?”
“We are driven to war after war, violence on top of violence to appease madmen who believe in gory mythologies.”
“Although they describe Spanish atrocities in gory detail, it is done factually, with little emotion.”
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“MOTHER OF TEARS: THE THIRD MOTHER (2007, Genius, unrated, $20) - Just how gory is Italian splatter maven Dario Argento's latest shockerama?”
“Unfortunately, Deadpool drastically miscalculating Smurfette’s dilation ability and it ended in gory tragedy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gory’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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color (red)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, red, descriptive, randomness )red, Red, Pink, Cloud, Salmon, Rose, Coral(Pink/Red/Dark), Cramoisy/Modena/C..., Raspberry, Rubious/Ruby, Tomato, Sanguineous/Blood and 483 more...
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Shakespeare.05
vaulting, dismal, gory, malice, summons, commend, forswear, dwindle, avarice, pristine, adage, predominance and 2 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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vocabs
to learn
fond, fuss, unhinged, syndication, mayhem, invoke, nostalgia, bizarre, blatantly, condemn, comrade, captivity and 89 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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1103
catatonia, dispatch, resuscitate, alleged, douse, expressly, famished, libel, misgiving, oaf, repast, recede and 52 more...
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