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noun
1.
an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
2.
anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
3.
such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation.
4.
a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
5.
EXPANDInformal. something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.
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COLLAPSEadjective
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inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.
8.
centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie.
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interjection
9.
horrors, (used as a mild expression of dismay, surprise, disappointment, etc.)
Origin:
1520–30; < Latin horror, equivalent to horr- (stem of horrēre to bristle with fear; see horrendous) + -or -or1; replacing Middle English orrour < Anglo-French < Latin horrōr-, stem of horror
1520–30; < Latin horror, equivalent to horr- (stem of horrēre to bristle with fear; see horrendous) + -or -or1; replacing Middle English orrour < Anglo-French < Latin horrōr-, stem of horror
Synonyms
1. dread, dismay, consternation. See terror. 4. loathing, antipathy, detestation, hatred, abomination.
1. dread, dismay, consternation. See terror. 4. loathing, antipathy, detestation, hatred, abomination.
Antonyms
1. serenity. 4. attraction.
1. serenity. 4. attraction.
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| horrors (ˈhɒrəz) | |
| —pl n | |
| 1. | slang a fit of depression or anxiety |
| 2. | informal See delirium tremens |
| —interj | |
| 3. | an expression of dismay, sometimes facetious |
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Word Origin & History
horror
late 14c., from O.Fr. horreur, from L. horror "bristling, roughness, rudeness, shaking, trembling," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder," from PIE base *ghers- "to bristle" (cf. Skt. harsate "bristles," Avestan zarshayamna- "ruffling one's feathers," L. eris (gen.) "hedgehog," Welsh garw "rough").
EXPANDAs a genre in film, 1936. Chamber of horrors originally (1849) was a gallery of notorious criminals in Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition.
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