gory

Meaning

1. Covered with blood; very bloody.
2. (informal) Unpleasant.

Synonyms

bloody

🩸

bloodstained

sanguinary

sanguineous

slaughterous

gruesome

butcherly

direful

dirty

dread

dreaded

dreadful

fearsome

god-awful

grisly

grotesque

hideous

horrendous

internecine

macabre

morbid

rare

red

sick

🤢

terrible

unspeakable

violent

blood-stained

incredibly brutal

ensanguined

awful

sanguinolent

blood

🩸

bloodied

blood-red

blood-soaked

bloodthirsty

creepy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɔː.ɹi/

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.