gory vs sanguinary what difference
what is difference between gory and sanguinary
English
Etymology
From gore + -y. Compare Middle English güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹ.i/
- Rhymes: -ɔːri
Adjective
gory (comparative gorier, superlative goriest)
- Covered with blood; very bloody.
- (informal) Unpleasant.
- Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
Translations
Anagrams
- Győr, gyro, gyro-, ogry, orgy
Lower Sorbian
Noun
gory
- Superseded spelling of góry.
English
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/
- Hyphenation: san‧gui‧nar‧y
Adjective
sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)
- (of an event) Involving bloodshed.
- Synonyms: bloody, gory
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Unity in Religion” (Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- 1887, Henry Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, Chapter XIII:
- “ […] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle.”
- (of a person) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
- Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous
- c. 1730, William Broome:
- Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
- (of an object) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
- Synonyms: bloodsoaked, bloody, gory
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
- 1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […] , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 117):
- We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with sanguine. Sanguine can mean “optimistic”, while sanguinary means “bloodthirsty, gory”.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
sanguinary (plural sanguinaries)
- A bloodthirsty person.
- The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).
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