Definition of horrors Horrors

/hɔˈɹɚz/ - [horerz] - hor•rors

We found 3 definitions of horrors from 2 different sources.

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What does horrors mean?

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  • horrors (Noun)
    Plural of horror.

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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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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • 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.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • 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.]

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  • 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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