Nearby Words
gory [gawr-ee, gohr-ee] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
gory [gawr-ee, gohr-ee]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bloody, horrible
Synonyms: bleeding, blood-soaked, bloodletting, bloodstained, imbrued, murderous, offensive, sanguinary, sanguine
Antonyms: mild, pleasant, pleasing
Main Entry: bloody
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hard-fought
Synonyms: bloodthirsty, cruel, cutthroat, decimating, ferocious, fierce, gory, grim, heavy, homicidal, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine, savage, slaughterous
Main Entry: lurid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shocking, gruesome
Synonyms: ashen, bloody, deep, disgusting, distinct, exaggerated, extreme, fiery, ghastly, gory, graphic, grim, grisly, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, livid, low-down, macabre, melodramatic, obscene, off-color, offensive, purple*, racy, raunchy, revolting, rough, salty, sanguine*, savage, sensational, sinister, startling, terrible, terrifying, violent, vivid, yellow*
Notes: lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious
Antonyms: clean, humble, modest
Example Sentences
  • Gory crime in resort areas is an especially delicate issue with promoters of the multibillion-dollar tourism industry here.
  • And so those who grab their swords prematurely often make themselves into gory and unpleasant spectacles.
  • Predictably, all three would-be chancellors in the next parliament spared viewers the gory details.
EXPAND
Main Entry: bloodstained
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bloody
Synonyms: bleeding, blood-soaked, ensanguined, gory, grisly, imbrued
Main Entry: sanguinary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bloody
Synonyms: blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguine, sanguineous, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded
Main Entry: sanguineous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bloody
Synonyms: blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguinary, sanguine, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded
Search another word or see goryon Dictionary |Spanish
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature