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gnarly

adjective

ˈnär-lē How to pronounce gnarly (audio)
gnarlier; gnarliest
1
: gnarled
gnarly branches
2
slang : very bad: such as
a
: very difficult or challenging to deal with
a gnarly [=thorny, knotty] problem
gnarly conditions
Having … skidded around gnarly hairpin turns … , the two bikers pedaled furiously for the finish. Austin Murphy
b
: nasty, unpleasant
"This guy has some pretty gnarly karma coming …" Drew Barrymore
c
: arousing disgust or distaste : gross
A cute toe polish can't save gnarly, callused soles. Jessica R. White
" … It'll be kind of a gruesome death. You know, its fur will start falling out, it'll develop gnarly sores all over its body. … " David Randall
3
slang : cool, excellent
After initially wiping out on the left wave, [Filipe] Toledo responded with a gnarly air reverse on the right and was rewarded with a 9.27. Hanford Sentinel
especially : having a pleasingly or impressively rugged or rough quality
He played in the NFL, but then got bored with football and became a FBI agent. He was a gnarly dude. Reece Kelley Graham
And yet [Mark] Knopfler built a reputation as an intensely creative virtuoso (not to mention an ace songwriter), showing remarkable command over a range of tones and textures—from the gnarly distortion on hit single "Money for Nothing" to the stinging precision of "Tunnel of Love." Rolling Stone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Against the child’s shoulder, her hand is dark and gnarly. Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022 Once the debt is wiped away, what we're left with is the gnarly reality that tuition costs are out of control, with no magic bullet to rein them in. Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Aug. 2022 The campus bled into the world around it—People’s Park, where gnarly street punks and homeless people lived; Telegraph Avenue, where hippie burnouts still wandered. Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 The offense shuffled between quarterbacks Hudson Card and Casey Thompson early on; the latter suffered a gnarly throwing-hand injury against Oklahoma that required offseason surgery. Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Aug. 2022 The first episode features succession drama, sibling rivalry, gnarly combat, a brothel scene and dragon fire. John Jurgensen, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2022 Pat Hanych started opening her bar to the most imaginative, idiosyncratic, and gnarly expressions of Cleveland music near the end of the ‘80s and kept it up for three decades. Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 16 June 2022 Beneath the bed and behind the shelf is enough storage space to accommodate all of his construction equipment, three crash pads for bouldering, and enough climbing and mountaineering gear to send gnarly lines all over the world. Chris Brinlee Jr., Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2016 In this segment, the Gladiator wins this metric with a gnarly 43.6 degrees of approach angle. Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

see gnarled

First Known Use

1760, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of gnarly was in 1760

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