Horror

//ˈhɒɹ.ə// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. countable, uncountable

    "Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim."

  2. 2
    something that inspires horror; something horrible wordnet
  3. 3
    Something horrible; that which excites horror. countable, uncountable

    "I saw many horrors during the war."

  4. 4
    intense aversion wordnet
  5. 5
    Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. countable, uncountable

    "“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. […] ”"

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  1. 6
    intense and profound fear wordnet
  2. 7
    A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. uncountable

    "Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’"

  3. 8
    A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.; An individual work in this genre. countable
  4. 9
    A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. colloquial, countable

    "The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!"

  5. 10
    An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors. countable, informal, uncountable
  6. 11
    Delirium tremens. countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable

    "`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.

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