English Explanatory Dictionary

horror

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. An individual work in this genre.
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. Delirium tremens.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɒɹ.ə/ /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/ en-us-horror.ogg /ˈhɑɹ.ɚ/ /ˈhɑɹ.ə/ /ˈhɔɚ/

Word forms

horror horrors horrour

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.

Synonyms

nightmare

Related words

horrendous horrible horrid horrific horrifical horrification horrify

Derived words

analog horror analogue horror Belsen horror body horror chamber of horrors digital horror dry horrors ecohorror Eurohorror folk horror fridge horror horror autotoxicus horror chamber horrorcore horrorfest horror film horror flick horrorful horrorist horrorize horrormeister horrormonger horror movie horror of horrors horrorous horror punk horrorscope horror show horror-show horrorsome horror story horror-stricken horror-struck horrorthon horror-thriller horror vacui horrorzine house of horrors J-horror K-horror mascot horror midnight horror nonhorror outhorror psychological horror quiet horror shock horror survival horror technohorror
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