'Horror' definitions:
Definition of 'horror'
(from WordNet)
noun
Intense and profound fear
noun
Something that inspires dislike; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
noun
Definition of 'Horror'
From: 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] [1913 Webster]
- Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. [1913 Webster]
- Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'horror'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Dracula,
- dread,
- enmity,
- execration,
- fear,
- fear and trembling,
- fee-faw-fum,
- Frankenstein,
- 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,
- Wolf-man,
- wrench