gory
UK/ˈɡɔː.ɹi//ˈɡɔɹ.i/
gory adjective: covered with blood; very bloody.
Adjective
gory (comparative gorier, superlative goriest)
- Covered with blood; very bloody.
- a gory movie
- Scandalous, and often unpleasant.
- Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
- "What do you know of this Sara Stilton affair, Earl?" / "Not so much—but enough to denounce as high crime and treason her being permitted, let the paid, for eruditing on her muderous experiences and appearing upon the screen in all the gory glamour of shooting her ancient but wealthy husband. […]"1928, The Police Journal, volume 16, page 15
- Excessively detailed, often boringly so.
- I ask the obligatory questions about how he thought she was doing and if he changed the medicine. I bite my tongue and get all the gory information. She tortures me for a while, knowing what I really want to know. Then I ask the two most important questions about the medication change. In no...2007 05, Angela Thompson, Where the Heck Is That Place Called Hope?, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 129
- All the gory information is in the footnotes to the financial statements. Under U.S. GAAP, companies are required to disclose information about their accounting choices and their expenses in the footnotes. The notes[…]2011 January 11, Ann C. Logue, MBA, Emerging Markets For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
- Bloody; pesky.
- "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
Proper noun capitalized: Gory
Gory (plural Gorys)
- A surname.
gory meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
gory in Tamil
- உறைந்த குருதி போன்ற, குருதிக்கறை படிந்த
gory in Urdu
- خونی
gory in Malayalam
- gruesome, grisly, violent
- ചോരപുരണ്ട, നിണമണിഞ്ഞ, ഭയം ജനിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, രക്തപങ്കിലമായ, രക്തപങ്കിലവും നടുക്കുന്നതുമായ, ചോരകൊണ്ടു ചുവന്ന
- bloody, bloodstained, bloodsoaked
- രക്താഭിഷിക്തമായ, ചോരപുരണ്ട, രക്തപങ്കില, രൗധിര, ബീഭത്സ, ഡാമര
gory in Kannada
- ರಕ್ತ ಚೆಲ್ಲಿದ, ರಕ್ತಸಿಕ್ತ, ನೆತ್ತರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಅದ್ದಿದ
More languagesFewer languages
- gory in Arabic
- دَمَوْي damawy
- gory in Vietnamese
- máu me
Examples of gory in a sentence
- In no time they fired away all the gory intimate details, down to his rose tattoo.2006, Charlotte Wilson, The Greatest Man I Never Met, page 70:
- […] since the gory truth of the matter is I need scatterbrain automobiles of desire to burn up the road in order to get out of my own way2008 July 14, Douglas McDaniel, Ginsberg Rolls Over, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
- The gory truth is that white women suffragettes (feminists) were not marching for Black women's right to vote in the early twentieth century.2023 March 21, Lyvonne Briggs, Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body, Convergent Books, →ISBN:
- His only aim was to catch the CEO at lunch and give him all the gory news to make life difficult for people he didn't like.2025, Shiv Shivakumar, The CEO Mindset: Developing Leadership Habits and Mental Models for Success:
Forms of gory
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | gorier |
| superlative | goriest |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gorys |
Origin of gory
From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.
Reduced form of McGorry.
Words formed from gory
Words that rhyme with gory
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Questions about gory
- What does gory mean?
- Gory means covered with blood; very bloody.
- What is gory in Tamil?
- Gory in Tamil is உறைந்த குருதி போன்ற, குருதிக்கறை படிந்த. See Gory meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use gory in a sentence?
- In no time they fired away all the gory intimate details, down to his rose tattoo.
- What part of speech is gory?
- Gory can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gory?
- Gory is pronounced /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gory (page history and authors); Gory (page history and authors); Gory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gory (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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