She screamed with horror as someone took hold of her arm.
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Horror
//ˈhɒɹ.ə//
Synonyms for "horror" (117 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (58)
Related word relations
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More general
6 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Related terms
7 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
48 entriesShowing 16 of 48 words.
is a
3 entriesrelated to
44 entriesShowing 16 of 44 words.
Translations
136 translations across 65 languages.
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.
I'm going to see a horror film.
Source: tatoeba (33129)
Some people derive pleasure from watching horror movies.
Source: tatoeba (33131)
I get goose bumps when I see a horror movie.
Source: tatoeba (33132)
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