Horror

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear. See Synonyms at fear.
  • n. Intense dislike; abhorrence.
  • n. A cause of horror.
  • n. Informal Something unpleasant, ugly, or disagreeable: That hat is a horror.
  • n. Informal Intense nervous depression or anxiety. Often used with the.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
  • n. An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  • n. A literary genre, generally of a gothic character.
  • n. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
  • n. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bristling or ruffling, as of the surface of water; a rippling.
  • n. A shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever, usually accompanied with contraction and roughening of the skin; a rigor.
  • n. A painful emotion of fear or abhorrence; a shuddering with terror or loathing; the feeling inspired by something frightful or shocking.
  • n. Shrinking dread; great dislike or repugnance: as, to hold publicity in horror; to have a horror of falsehood.
  • n. That which excites horror or terror; that which causes gloom or dread: as, the horrors of war; a place of horrors.
  • n. Delirium tremens.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. intense aversion
  • n. something that inspires dislike; something horrible
  • n. intense and profound fear
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disgust    thing    fearfulness    fright    fear   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gloom    dreariness    tremble    fear    abhorrence    aversion    delirium tremens    nightmare   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rohrer    borer    explorer    restorer    scorer    sporer    storer   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    terror    misery    anger    joy    dread    emotion    shame    wonder    shock    astonishment