Horror

//ˈhɒɹ.ə//

Synonyms for "horror" (117 found)

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Translations

136 translations across 65 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • tmerr noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Arabic

2 entries
  • خَوْف noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • رُعْب noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Armenian

2 entries
  • ահ noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • սարսափ noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • dəhşət noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • vahimə noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • жах noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • жах noun (literary genre)
  • страх noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Bengali

1 entries
  • ভয় noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • отвраще́ние noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • страх noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • у́жас noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • у́жаси noun (literary genre)

Catalan

2 entries
  • horror noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • terror noun (literary genre)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 恐怖 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • 恐怖 noun (literary genre)
  • 恐懼 /恐惧 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Czech

2 entries
  • horor noun (literary genre)
  • hrůza noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Danish

2 entries
  • gru noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • rædsel noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Dutch

1 entries
  • gruwel noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Esperanto

3 entries
  • hororo noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • teruraĵo noun (thing that which excites horror)
  • teruro noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Estonian

3 entries
  • õud noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • õudus noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • õõv noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hirveys noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • inho noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • kammo noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • kammo noun (intense dislike or aversion)

French

4 entries
  • aversion noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • dégoût noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • effroi noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • horreur noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Galician

1 entries
  • horror noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Georgian

1 entries
  • საშინელება noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

German

4 entries
  • Angst noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • Furcht noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • Grauen noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • Greuel noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Gothic

1 entries
  • 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌴𐌹 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Greek

1 entries
  • τρόμος noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • אֵימָה noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Hindi

3 entries
  • आतंक noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • दहशत noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • भय noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • borzalom noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • ógn noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • horor noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Irish

1 entries
  • uafás noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Italian

1 entries
  • orrore noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Japanese

3 entries
  • ホラー noun (literary genre)
  • 恐れ noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • 恐怖 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • қорқыныш noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • үрей noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ភេរវារម្មណ៍ noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Korean

4 entries
  • 공포 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • 공포 noun (literary genre)
  • 두려움 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • 무서움 noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • коркунуч noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Latin

1 entries
  • horror noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Latvian

1 entries
  • šausmas noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • siaubas noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • šiurpas noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • страв noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • у́жас noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • у́жаси noun (literary genre)
  • хо́рор noun (literary genre)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • аймшиг noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • gru noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • redsel noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Occitan

1 entries
  • orror noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Old English

1 entries
  • ōga noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Pashto

1 entries
  • دهشت noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Persian

2 entries
  • دهشت noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • وحشت noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Grul noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Polish

2 entries
  • groza noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • strach noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • horror noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • horror noun (literary genre)

Romanian

3 entries
  • groază noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • oroare noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • spaimă noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Russian

4 entries
  • боя́знь noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • омерзе́ние noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • отвраще́ние noun (intense dislike or aversion)
  • страх noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • घोर noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • ȕžās noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • у̏жа̄с noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Slovak

1 entries
  • hrôza noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Slovene

1 entries
  • groza noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Spanish

1 entries
  • horror noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Swedish

4 entries
  • fasa noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • fruktan noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • skräck noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • skräck noun (literary genre)

Tajik

2 entries
  • ваҳшаг noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • даҳшат noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Tatar

2 entries
  • дәһшәт noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • куркыныч noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • empelñe noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Tongan

1 entries
  • lilifu noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Turkish

2 entries
  • dehşet noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • korku noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • elhençlik noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Ukrainian

3 entries
  • жах noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • жах noun (literary genre)
  • страх noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Urdu

1 entries
  • دہشت noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • قورقۇنچ noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • dahshat noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • qoʻrquv noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • sự ghê rợn noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)
  • sự khiếp noun (intense distressing fear or repugnance)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

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She screamed with horror as someone took hold of her arm.

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I'm going to see a horror film.

Source: tatoeba (33129)

Some people derive pleasure from watching horror movies.

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I get goose bumps when I see a horror movie.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.