Horror

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hor=ror

CIDE DICTIONARY

Horror, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr. horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. hsh to bristle.].

•  A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.  [1913 Webster]

  "Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.  [1913 Webster]

  "How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered?"  [1913 Webster]
•  That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Breathes a browner horror on the woods."  [1913 Webster]

The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Horror, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a painful feeling of loathing and fear.
2 a (often foll. by of) intense dislike. b (often foll. by at) colloq. intense dismay.
3 a a person or thing causing horror. b colloq. a bad or mischievous person etc.
4 (in pl.; prec. by the) a fit of horror, depression, or nervousness, esp. as in delirium tremens.
5 a terrified and revolted shuddering.
6 (in pl.) an exclamation of dismay.
--attrib. adj. (of literature, films, etc.) designed to attract by arousing pleasurable feelings of horror.

Idiom

Chamber of Horrors a place full of horrors (orig. a room of criminals etc. in Madame Tussaud's waxworks). horror-struck (or -stricken) horrified, shocked.

Etymology

ME f. OF (h)orrour f. L horror -oris (as HORRID)

THESAURUS

Horror

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Horror

Fear

N fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence, apprehensiveness, fearfulness, solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving, feeze, mistrust, suspicion, qualm, hesitation, nervousness, restlessness, inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern, batophobia, heartquake, flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat, abject fear, mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency, despair, fright, affright, affrightment, boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede (of horses), intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror, bug bear, bugaboo, scarecrow, hobgoblin, nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible, alarmist, fearing, frightened, in fear, in a fright, haunted with the fear of, afeard, afraid, fearful, timid, timorous, nervous, diffident, coy, faint- hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety, more frightened than hurt, aghast, awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck, frightened to death, white as a sheet, pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes, breathless, in hysterics, inspiring fear, alarming, formidable, redoubtable, perilous, portentous, fearful, dread, dreadful, fell, dire, direful, shocking, terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, ghastly, awful, awe-inspiring, revolting, Gorgonian, in terrorem, Int, angels and ministers of grace defend us!, ante tubam trepidat, horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit, a dagger of the mind, expertus metuit, fain would I climb but that I fear to fall, fear is the parent of cruelty, Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire, omnia tuta timens, our fears do make us traitors.

Dislike

N dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency, reluctance, backwardness, repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing, averseness, aversation, aversion, abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror, mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror, hatred, detestation, hate, animosity, hydrophobia, canine madness, byssa, xenophobia, sickener, gall and wormwood, shuddering, cold sweat, disliking, averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse, shy of, sick of, out of conceit with, disinclined, heartsick, dogsick, queasy, disliked, uncared for, unpopular, out of favor, repulsive, repugnant, repellant, abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous, loathsome, loathful, offensive, disgusting, disagreeable c, (painful), usque ad nauseam, Int, faugh!, foh!, ugh!, non libet.