gory

About 0.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Covered with blood; very bloody.

   a gory movie

2. adjective Scandalous, and often unpleasant.

   Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.

3. adjective Excessively detailed, often boringly so.
4. adjective Bloody; pesky.

Similar words

bloody bloodstained sanguinary sanguineous butcherly slaughterous sanguine deadly gori culloden

Often followed by

details detail and head locks of field scene mess

Word family

gorier goriest