Synonyms of the word horror


HORRORDISGUST - FEAR - FEARFULNESS - FRIGHT - REPUGNANCE - REPULSION - REVULSION - THING

horror

  • n. (countable, uncountable) An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
  • n. (countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  • n. (uncountable) A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  • n. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the…

disgust

  • v. To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • n. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

fear

  • n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
  • n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
  • n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
  • v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
  • v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
  • v. (transitive) Regret.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
  • adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

  • n. The quality of being fearful.

fright

  • n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
  • n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
  • adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

repugnance

  • n. extreme aversion, repulsion.
  • n. contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.

repulsion

  • n. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  • n. An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
  • n. (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

revulsion

  • n. Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
  • n. A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
  • n. (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
  • n. (obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
  • n. (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.

thing

  • n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
  • n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
  • n. An individual object or distinct entity.
  • n. (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
  • n. (law).
  • n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
  • n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
  • n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
  • n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
  • n. (slang) A penis.
  • n. A living being or creature.
  • n. That which matters; the crux.
  • n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
  • n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.).
  • n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
  • v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.

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