Definitions for horror
ˈhɔr ər, ˈhɒr-hor·ror

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 6 votes

1. horrornoun

   intense and profound fear

2. horrornoun

   something that inspires dislike; something horrible

   "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"

3. repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, horrornoun

   intense aversion

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 6 votes

1. horrornoun

   An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.

2. horrornoun

   An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

3. horrornoun

   A literary genre, generally of a gothic character.

4. horrornoun

   (The horrors, informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. horror

   Horror is a genre of literature, film, or other forms of media that is designed to evoke feelings of fear, dread, disgust, or terror in the audience. It often involves themes of death, the supernatural, evil, or the unknown, with the intent to shock, scare or thrill. Horror is also used to describe any situation or real-life event that is extremely distressing, disturbing, or terrifying.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Horrornoun

   a bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement

2. Horrornoun

   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

3. Horrornoun

   a painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking

4. Horrornoun

   that which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness

5. Etymology: [Formerly written horrour.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Horror

   Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres. Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.8 / 6 votes

1. 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.]

Matched Categories

1. • Disgust
   • Fear

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'horror' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4278

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'horror' in Nouns Frequency: #1543

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How to pronounce horror?

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How to say horror in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of horror in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of horror in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of horror in a Sentence

1. Trump Trump:

   Nothing good comes out of a horror show like that but if anything, the way the people reacted, who were so affected, the love that they had, it was incredible, it was actually an incredible moment, I've never seen anything like it.

2. John Allen:

   As you recall about this time last year, we were all facing the horror of what was happening in the vicinity of Sinjar to the Yazidi people. A year later, Kurdish forces, some number of thousands of them, have launched into the attack to push Daesh (ISIS) out of that area.

3. Masachika Kawata:

   VR brings an absolutely unprecedented level of immersion to the horror experience of 'Resident Evil'. It's a totally new dimension as to how you experience the fear especially because in VR the headset tracks your movement and you can look around the environment using your own head and see everything around you.

4. Forrest Dunbar:

   For Forrest Dunbar and most Jews, seeing the yellow Star of David on someone's chest elicits the same feeling as seeing a swastika on a flag or the SS insignia on a uniform, it is a symbol of hate that reminds us Jews of the terror and horror we suffered. I believe it is a constitutional right to protest for your values. But I request that you do not use symbols that diminish the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the survivors who would like their children not to know the nightmare they endured.

5. Jordan Peele:

   I used to go to the movie theater and watch horror movies and you know black people, we yell s --- at the screen, i ’d go watch like a Freddy movie and you ’d hear people saying s --- like, ‘ Oh, b ----, get out of the house ’ or ‘ No. no, no -- don’t walk backwards ! ’ or ‘ You’re white -- call the cops ! ’ I got it in my head that there was a missing piece of the conversation. There was a film that we were asking for, begging for that was n’t there for us.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=horror
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Horror
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horror
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=horror
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=horror
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=horror