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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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.
| 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 |
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