🇬🇧 Gory meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Gory means something is very bloody, messy, and yucky to look at, like in a scary movie battle or a gross injury, with lots of blood and icky details that might make you say, “Ewww!”

Mom said the spaghetti looked delicious, but after I splashed sauce everywhere, it looked like a gory tomato crime scene.

The zombie movie was so gory that even the zombie covered his eyes and asked for a cartoon instead.

My little brother drew such a gory picture with red crayons that the teacher asked if the stick figures were okay.

When I popped the ketchup packet too hard, it exploded in a gory blast all over my fries, the table, and my face.

The vampire movie got so gory that even the popcorn bucket tried to crawl out of the theater.

On the rainy street, a cyclist skidded and a leg hit the curb. The gory wound shone; a gory spray stained the asphalt and the gory air smelled metallic. Strangers knelt, pressed shirts; someone shouted for help at the gory sight. A child covered ears, cried at the gory noise, then watched medics carry him away, relieved when help arrived.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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