Horror

What do we mean by horror?

An intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear. noun

A state or condition marked by this feeling: synonym: fear. noun

An intense dislike or abhorrence. noun

A cause of horror. noun

A genre of fiction or other artistic work evoking suspense and horror, especially through the depiction of gruesome or supernatural elements. noun

A work of this genre. noun

One that is unpleasant, ugly, or disagreeable. noun

Intense nervous depression or anxiety. Often used with the. noun

A bristling or ruffling, as of the surface of water; a rippling. noun

A shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever, usually accompanied with contraction and roughening of the skin; a rigor. noun

A painful emotion of fear or abhorrence; a shuddering with terror or loathing; the feeling inspired by something frightful or shocking. noun

Shrinking dread; great dislike or repugnance: as, to hold publicity in horror; to have a horror of falsehood. noun

That which excites horror or terror; that which causes gloom or dread: as, the horrors of war; a place of horrors. noun

Delirium tremens. noun

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. noun

A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor. noun

A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. noun

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. noun

An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

Something horrible; that which excites horror.

Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

An individual work in this genre.

A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.

(plural) Delirium tremens.

Words that are spelled similarly to horror:
horror, borror.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word horror:
treehouse, slasher, frankenstein, bram, suspense, dracula, thriller, flick, scream, halloween, zombie, anthology, nightmare, genre, supernatural, weird, zombies, fiction, fantasy, movies, haunted, tales, vampire, directed, installment, terror, starring, genres, remake, film, sequel, gore, movie, monster, monsters, comics, bloody, comedy, mystery, cult, stories, punk, hammer, screenplay, evil, creature, ghost, starred, picture, comic, killer, tale, novel, story, gothic, guild, cinema, dead, stars, midnight, romance, adventure, fear, hell, edited, written, alien, premiered, shock, silent, psychological, themes, graphic, stephen, dark, franchise, adaptation, christopher, drama.

Words that rhyme with horror:
explorer, borer, scorer, restorer, storer, maurer, corn borer, european corn borer, bohrer, rohrer, mowrer, dorer, sporer, rhorer, abhor her, adore her, before her, bore her, deplore her, door her, explore her, floor her, florer, for her, fore her, furthermore her, ignore her, implore her, lor her, mentor her, more her, mourer, nor her, or her, pour her, restore her, rorer, score her, shore her, sor her, spoarer, store her, swore her, therefore her, tor her, tore her, underscore her, war er, war her, wore her.

Adjectives that are often used to describe horror:
such, great, full, real, much, holy, unspeakable, mock, sheer, sudden, greater, absolute, utter, greatest, utmost, ultimate, pious, true, gothic, natural, instinctive, silent, peculiar, perfect, fascinated, nameless, intense, cold, superstitious, indescribable, unutterable, deep, genuine, extreme, pure, very, moral, universal, secret, strange, supernatural, vague, awful, profound, equal, mingled, inexpressible, stark, less, unmitigated, fresh, speechless, unimaginable, mysterious, morbid, tragic, deepest, sacred, ghastly, incredulous, abject, frozen, inward, helpless, mute, shocked, grotesque, sick, sickening, naked, nervous, added, worst, unknown, blank.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective horror:
stories, story, fiction, narrative, movie, the, film, king, movies, stricken, wood.

Consonant match to horror:
hero, harrow, harry, hoary, houri, hooray, hairy, hera, hurrah, hora, hurray, harrah, hari, hiero, hiro, horae, hoorah, hearer, hara, haro, herry, howrah, hori, harar, harra, hierro, herre, herie, herro, howry, harer, harrer, hiero-, haury.

Words that sound like horror:
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