horror
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈhɒɹ.ə//
- Canada//ˈhɔɹ.ɚ//
- //ˈhɑɹ.ɚ//
- //ˈhɑɹ.ə//
- //ˈhɔɚ//
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
noun
- 1
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
- 2
Something horrible; that which excites horror.
I saw many horrors during the war.
Could there be stories with more horror than these?
- 3
Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”
- 4
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- 5
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. An individual work in this genre.
- 6
A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
- 7
informalAn intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- 8
informalDelirium tremens.
`My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'
Etymology
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
Forms
- plural
- horrors
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