gory

«gory» in Mova's school dictionary: full of blood and violence, often in a film, game or story — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (gory, gorier, goriest); noun gore

meaning for a pupil

1) Gory means full of blood and violence, often in a film, game or story. tree →

2) (informal) The gory details are the unpleasant or embarrassing details of something, told fully: «Tell me all the gory details!» tree →

sense in the lessons

Used about horror stories, history lessons about battles and Horrible Histories, and film age ratings. In everyday chat «the gory details» is a joke way to ask for every bit of a story. Phrases: «gory details», «a gory film».

examples

• That film is too gory for children. tree →
• The history book had a gory picture of a battle. tree →
• I covered my eyes at the gory part. tree →
• Tell me all the gory details of your camping trip! tree →
• My brother loves gory zombie stories. tree →
• The age rating warns that the game is gory. tree →
• Horrible Histories tells the gory side of the past. tree →
• The fox left a gory mess in the chicken run. tree →

note

Comparative gorier, superlative goriest. Gore means blood from a wound. Do not confuse with «gaudy» or with «Gorey», a place name.

In the corpora

• It was gorier than any of them expected.
• Pretending you are not scared is very common, and many people cover their eyes at gory bits.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gory» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.