About The Word Horror

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Horror

Horror Meaning & Definition
Horror Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Horror?

[n] something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
[n] intense aversion
[n] intense and profound fear

Synonyms | Synonyms for Horror: repugnance | repulsion | revulsion

Related Terms | Find terms related to Horror: abhorrence | abject fear | abomination | affright | alarm | allergy | angst | animosity | animus | antagonism | antipasto | antipathy | anxiety | apprehension | aversion | awe | blue funk | bogey | bogeyman | bugaboo | bugbear | clawing | cold sweat | consternation | cowardice | creeping flesh | cruciation | crucifixion | detestation | disgust | dislike | dismay | distaste | distress | Dracula | dread | enmity | execration | fear | fear and trembling | fee-faw-fum | Frankenstein | fright | frightener | funk | ghost | ghoul | hate | hatred | hell | hell upon earth | hobgoblin | holocaust | holy terror | horrification | hostility | incubus | laceration | lancination | loathing | martyrdom | monster | mortal horror | nausea | nervousness | nightmare | odium | ogre | ogress | pain | panic | panic fear | passion | persecution | perturbation | phantom | phobia | purgatory | queasiness | rack | rancor | repugnance | repulsion | revenant | revulsion | scare | scarebabe | scarecrow | scarer | shock | shuddering | specter | stampede | succubus | terror | torment | torture | trepidation | trepidity | uneasiness | unholy dread | upset | vampire | werewolf | whet | Wolf-man | wrench

See Also | disgust | fear | fearfulness | fright | thing

Horror In Webster's Dictionary

\Hor"ror\, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr. horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h?sh to bristle.] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. --Chapman. 2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor. 3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton. 4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope. {The horrors}, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

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