horror
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: horrors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horrour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
gloss: Something horrible; that which excites horror.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I saw many horrors during the war.
The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
Could there be stories with more horror than these?
gloss: Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “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. […] ”
gloss: A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
gloss: A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
gloss: An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: Delirium tremens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
informal
uncountable
examples: `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'
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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