gory.

Involving or vividly showing a lot of blood and bodily injury.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a gory scene
• gory details

On the page

The witness avoided the gory details and described only the sequence of events.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Comparative gorier or more gory; superlative goriest or most gory. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: action, description. Commonness: moderately common.