Horror

Noun

 * 1) An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
 * 2) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
 * 3) A literary genre, generally of a gothic character.
 * 4) (The horrors, informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression.

Adjectives for Horror
profound; damp; amused; attendant; alien; gentle; bragging; ignorant; scaly; untold speechless; weary; blank; cloudy; congenial; superstitious; instinctive; unmitigated invariable; distant; pious; ridiculous; accumulated; gloomy; hovering; incredulous: indescribable; quaint; formless; dismal; pursuing; sleepy; blank; misbegotten; fantastic; grisly; inseparable; supernumerary; unspeakable; stunned; anxious; nameless; ghastly; large-eyed; inconvenient; silent; inconceivable; insuperable; peculiar; infinite; tragic; cold; pungent; unimaginable; affected; incredible;  dreary;  unaccountable; shadowy; grim; journalistic; stunned; burlesque; incumbent; inactive; uncouth; utter imaginary; positive; irrational; piercing unfeigned; frightful; inexorable; intoler able; bloody; distant; mingled (pi); pale unburied; childlike.

Verbs for Horror
banish—; chill with—; conceal—; depict—; enhance—; expose—; freeze with—; ponder over—; recoil in—; reconstruct—; rise to the height of—; strike—; survey—; transfix with—; view with—; witness—; — grows; —strikes.

Synonyms for Horror
nightmare, dismay, consternation, dread, loathing, disgust, terror, aversion, awe, antipathy, fear, fright.

Antonyms for Horror
delight, pleasure, fascination, consolation, comfort.

Derived terms

 * horror movie
 * psychological horror
 * survival horror

Related terms

 * horrible
 * horrid
 * horrific
 * horrify
 * horrendous

Thesaurus
Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, abhorrence, abject fear, abomination, affright, alarm, allergy, angst, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipasto, antipathy, anxiety, apprehension, aversion, awe, blue funk, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, clawing, cold sweat, consternation, cowardice, creeping flesh, cruciation, crucifixion, detestation, disgust, dislike, dismay, distaste, distress, dread, enmity, execration, fear, fear and trembling, fee-faw-fum, fright, frightener, funk, ghost, ghoul, hate, hatred, hell, hell upon earth, hobgoblin, holocaust, holy terror, horrification, hostility, incubus, laceration, lancination, loathing, martyrdom, monster, mortal horror, nausea, nervousness, nightmare, odium, ogre, ogress, pain, panic, panic fear, passion, persecution, perturbation, phantom, phobia, purgatory, queasiness, rack, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenant, revulsion, scare, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, shock, shuddering, specter, stampede, succubus, terror, torment, torture, trepidation, trepidity, uneasiness, unholy dread, upset, vampire, werewolf, whet, wrench

Etymology
From horror: < horrere:.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: kauhu (1), kammo (1), kammo (2), kauhistus (2)
 * French: horreur (1), effroi (1), dégoût (2), aversion (2)
 * German:, Grauen
 * Persian: هراس


 * Romanian:, oroare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uamhann, oillt , uabhas , uabhann , sgreamh
 * Telugu: దారుణం (daaruNam)
 * Turkish: dehşet, yılgı, korku

Noun

 * 1) bristling (standing on end)
 * 2) shaking, shivering, chill
 * 3) dread, terror, horror

Pronunciation




Etymology
Latin horror, horroris

Noun

 * 1) horror

Synonyms

 * temor
 * terror

Related terms

 * horrendo
 * hórrido
 * horrífero
 * horrífico
 * horripilar
 * horrível
 * horrorizar
 * horroroso

Pronunciation




Etymology
Latin horror, horroris

Noun

 * 1) horror

Synonyms

 * miedo
 * temor
 * terror

Related terms

 * horrible
 * horrífico
 * horripilante
 * horrorizar
 * horroroso
 * horrendo