horror

Definition

  • noun: a very strong feeling of fear, dread, and shock
  • noun: painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay
  • synonyms: gloom, dreariness, tremble

Examples

  • There was no television at the cabin, so—'horror of horrors'!—we had to spend the evenings reading books and playing board games.

  • He saw 'to his horror' that he couldn't escape. [=he was horrified to see that he couldn't escape]

  • Like many teenagers, she 'has a horror of' being seen in public with her parents.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced... Pale as his shirt, his knees mocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport... ...as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors, he comes before me - Mad for thy love? - My lord, I do not know - What said he? (..)
    2015 Hamlet