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Definitions for Horror

[1] an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
[2] anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
[3] such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation.
[4] a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
[5] Informal . something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.
[6] horrors, Informal . delirium tremens. extreme depression.
[7] inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.
[8] centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie.
[9] horrors, (used as a mild expression of dismay, surprise, disappointment, etc.)
[10] extreme fear; terror; dread
[11] intense loathing; hatred
[12] (often plural) a thing or person causing fear, loathing, etc
[13] (modifier) having a frightening subject, esp a supernatural one a horror film

Words related to Horror

dismay, consternation, fright, apprehension, dread, disgust, terror, awe, panic, hatred, abhorrence, repugnance, hate, alarm, antipathy, abomination, trepidation, aversion, detestation, monstrosity

Words nearby Horror

horrified, horrify, horrifying, horripilate, horripilation, horror, horror show, horror story, horror-struck, horrors, hors concours

Origin of Horror

1520–30; < Latin horror, equivalent to horr- (stem of horrēre to bristle with fear; see horrendous) + -or -or1; replacing Middle English orrour < Anglo-French < Latin horrōr-, stem of horror

Word origin for Horror

C14: from Latin: a trembling with fear; compare hirsute

Synonyms for Horror

apprehension, awe, consternation, disgust, dismay, dread, fright, hatred, panic, terror, abhorrence, abomination, alarm, antipathy, aversion, chiller, detestation, dislike, hate, loathing, monstrosity, repugnance, trepidation