Horror

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Horror \Hor"ror\, 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. h?sh to bristle.]
     1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous
        movement. [Archaic]
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              Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
              wrinkled waves.                       --Chapman.
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     2. 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.
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     3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
        shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
        inspired by something frightful and shocking.
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              How could this, in the sight of heaven, without
              horrors of conscience be uttered?     --Milton.
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     4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
        dreariness.
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              Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
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     {The horrors}, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  horror
       n 1: intense and profound fear
       2: something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the
          painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to
          him"
       3: intense aversion [syn: {repugnance}, {repulsion}, {revulsion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "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