Word Meanings - GORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Covered with gore or clotted blood. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak. 2. Bloody; murderous. "Gory emulation." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GORY)

• Bloodthirsty
• Gory
• bloody
• murderous
• inhuman
• cruel
• ruthless
• savage

Related words: (words related to GORY)

• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• CRUELS
  Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
• INHUMAN
  1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
• SAVAGELY
  In a savage manner.
• CRUELLY
  1. In a cruel manner. 2. Extremly; very. Spectator.
• CRUELNESS
  Cruelty. Spenser.
• SAVAGE
  belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage
• RUTHLESS
  Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless. Their rage the hostile bands restrain, All but the ruthless monarch of the main. Pope. -- Ruth"less*ly, adv. -- Ruth"less*ness, n.
• BLOODY SWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• BLOODY FLUX
  The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
• BLOODY HAND
  A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. (more info) 1. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's
• BLOODYBONES
  A terrible bugbear.
• SAVAGERY
  1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft
• CRUELTY
  1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act
• MURDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak.
• BLOODTHIRSTY
  Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness (n.
• CRUEL
  See CREWEL
• SAVAGENESS
  The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. Shak.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• BEBLOOD; BEBLOODY
  To make bloody; to stain with blood. Sheldon.
• UNBLOODY
  Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. The Mass.