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guro

guro noun: a subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.

Noun

guro (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
    • And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction
    • The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons

Proper noun capitalized: Guro

Guro

  1. A language of the Mande family spoken in the Ivory Coast.
    Synonyms:
    Kweni

Synonyms of guro

Origin of guro

Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.

Questions about guro

What does guro mean?
Guro means a subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
What part of speech is guro?
Guro can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near guro in the dictionary

  1. gurning
  2. gurnings
  3. Gurnos
  4. gurns
  5. Gurny
  6. guro
  7. guroo
  8. guroos
  9. gurp
  10. gurped
  11. gurping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guro (page history and authors); Guro (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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