gory

adjective \ ˈgȯr-ē \

|Updated on: 17 Jun 2018

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Definition of gory

gorier; goriest

1 : covered with gore : bloodstained

2 : bloodcurdling, sensational

wanted to hear the gory details

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Examples of gory in a Sentence

doesn't watch too many movies that feature gory violence

Recent Examples of gory from the Web

Jan 1: The debut of MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch MTV kicks off the new year with the debut of its late-night, gory claymation series, pitting animated pop culture icons against each other in battles to the death, aptly titled Celebrity Deathmatch.

— billboard staff, Billboard, "98 Things That Happened in 1998," 1 June 2018
While prolonged and gory scenes of suicide are absent from Season 2, the upgraded trigger warnings aren’t just for show.

— washington post, BostonGlobe.com, "Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’ is back, and this season may be even more disturbing," 22 May 2018
After the gory photo went viral, Griffin said sorry but later took back her apology.

— samuel chamberlain, Fox News, "Kathy Griffin proud of attacking Matt, Mercedes Schlapp at White House dinner's MSNBC after-party," 13 May 2018
The result is gripping, suspenseful, and, frankly, bloody and gory.

— eva holland, Outside Online, "'The Terror' Is a Gory Take on an Arctic Mystery," 22 Mar. 2018
Recent political news can seem like an all-consuming sideshow, with each day bringing more gory details of national strife and division.

— hank gilman, Fortune, "4 Ways to Keep Politics From Dividing the Workplace," 23 Feb. 2018
In the wake of the premiere, which resolved a frustrating cliffhanger from Season 6’s finale, many critics asked if the premiere’s gory reveal was worth the massive build-up that preceded Glenn’s murder.

— laura bradley, HWD, "Steven Yeun Says Glenn “Never Got His Fair Due” on The Walking Dead," 6 July 2017
Argentinean director Alejandro Fadel returns to Cannes with a gory philosophical horror movie.

— stephen dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Murder Me, Monster' ('Muere, monstro, muere'): Film Review | Cannes 2018," 13 May 2018
Annihilation This attempt at a thinking person’s action movie devolves into a motiveless slog, in which a group of female soldiers go on a suicide mission, for little or no reason, and end up seeing some very gory, disgusting things.

— chronicle staff report, San Francisco Chronicle, "Capsule movie reviews for week of April 29," 26 Apr. 2018

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First Known Use of gory

15th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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gory Synonyms

Synonyms

bloodstained, bloody;

sanguinary;

Synonym Discussion of gory

bloody, sanguinary, gory mean affected by or involving the shedding of blood. bloody is applied especially to things that are actually covered with blood or are made up of blood.