Definition of HORROR

horror

Plural: horrors

Noun

  • An intense feeling of fear, shock, or revulsion.
  • intense and profound fear
  • something that inspires dislike; something horrible
    • "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
  • intense aversion
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Delirium tremens.

Examples

  • I saw many horrors during the war.
  • The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  • To his HORROR, he realized he had accidentally challenged a valid word and lost his turn.

Origin / 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.

Scrabble Score: 9

horror: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
horror: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
horror: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

horror: valid Words With Friends Word