horror
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- intense and profound fear
- something that inspires dislike; something horrible“the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him”
- intense aversionSynonyms: repugnancerepulsionrevulsion
Webster's Dictionary (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]