"gory" meaning in English

See gory in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/ [UK], /ˈɡɔɹ.i/ [Canada, US] Audio: En-us-gory.ogg Forms: gorier [comparative], goriest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːɹi Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|gore|-y|id2=adjectival}} gore + -y, {{cog|enm|gorry|t=muddy}} Middle English gorry (“muddy”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} gory (comparative gorier, superlative goriest)
  1. Covered with blood; very bloody. Translations (covered with blood, very bloody): دَمَوْي (damawy) (Arabic), кървав (kǎrvav) (Bulgarian), окървавен (okǎrvaven) (Bulgarian), krvavý (Czech), zkrvavený (Czech), blodig (Danish), bloedig (Dutch), bloederig (Dutch), verinen (Finnish), hurmeinen (Finnish), sanglant (French), სისხლიანი (sisxliani) (Georgian), blutig (German), blutrünstig (German), mörderisch (German), véres (Hungarian), fuilteach (Irish), cruento (Italian), sanguinoso (Italian), sanguinolento (Italian), cruentus (Latin), blodig (Norwegian), bloodrich (Plautdietsch), krwawy (Polish), ensanguentado (Portuguese), крова́вый (krovávyj) (Russian), окрова́вленный (okrovávlennyj) (Russian), ensangrentado (Spanish), sanguinolento (Spanish), sangriento (Spanish), cruento (Spanish), bloddrypande (Swedish), kanlı (Turkish), korkunç (Turkish), ürpertici (Turkish), крива́вий (kryvávyj) (Ukrainian), máu me (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-gory-en-adj-sayao9MQ Disambiguation of 'covered with blood, very bloody': 96 1 4
  2. (informal) Scandalous, and often unpleasant. Tags: informal
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  3. Excessively detailed, often boringly so.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: gorily, goriness, gory details, ungory

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The gory truth is that white women suffragettes (feminists) were not marching for Black women's right to vote in the early twentieth century. The unsavory reality is that Sistas faced sexism at the hands of our Brothas [too].",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "blodig"
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "bloedig"
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "bloederig"
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "verinen"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "hurmeinen"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "sanglant"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "lang_code": "ka",
      "roman": "sisxliani",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "სისხლიანი"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "blutig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "blutrünstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "mörderisch"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "véres"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "fuilteach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "cruento"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "sanguinoso"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "sanguinolento"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "cruentus"
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    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "blodig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "lang_code": "pdt",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "bloodrich"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "krwawy"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "ensanguentado"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "roman": "krovávyj",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "крова́вый"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "roman": "okrovávlennyj",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "окрова́вленный"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "ensangrentado"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "sanguinolento"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "sangriento"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "cruento"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "bloddrypande"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "kanlı"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
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      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "korkunç"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "ürpertici"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "kryvávyj",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "крива́вий"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "sense": "covered with blood, very bloody",
      "word": "máu me"
    }
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}

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