Definition of horror Horror

/hɔˈɹɚ/ - [horer] - hor•ror

We found 14 definitions of horror from 6 different sources.

What does horror mean?

Noun Plural: horrors
horror - intense and profound fear
		fright, fearfulness, fear the trait of being afraid
horror - something that inspires dislike; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
horror - intense aversion
		repugnance, repulsion, revulsion
		disgust strong feelings of dislike

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horror (Noun)
An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
horror (Noun)
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
horror (Noun)
A literary genre, generally of a gothic character.
horror (Noun)
An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors.

horror (n.)
A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
horror (n.)
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.
horror (n.)
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
horror (n.)
That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

horror
hor′ur, n. a shuddering: excessive fear: that which excites horror.—adjs. Horr′or-strick′en, -struck, struck with horror.—The horrors, extreme depression: delirium tremens. [L.—horrēre, to bristle.]

Horror is another word for scary. Horror usually is used to describe genres. A genre is a category for a type of story or movie. Horror movies or stories usually hold alot of suspense.

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