horror Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- sinfulness
- fearfulness
- torture
- baseness
- heinousness
- hideousness
- agony
- anguish
- vileness
- grisliness
- misery
- evil
- horridness
- atrociousness
- monstrosity
- badness
- evilness
- repulsiveness
Weak:
- detestableness
- creepiness
- iniquity
- wickedness
- execrableness
- ghoulishness
- invidiousness
- scariness
- deplorableness
- foulness
- depravity
- hatefulness
- ghostliness
- hellishness
- depravedness
- diabolicalness
- reprehensibleness
- ungodliness
- accursedness
- viciousness
- loathsomeness
- fearsomeness
- eeriness
- iniquitousness
- immorality
- cursedness
- despicableness
- torment
horror Meaning
horror (n)
intense and profound fear
something that inspires horror; something horrible
intense aversion
horror (n.)
A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
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.
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
horror Sentence Examples
- The horror of the car crash left an indelible mark on the survivors' minds.
- The movie's graphic violence and jump scares were a symphony of horror.
- The thought of spiders crawling over my skin filled me with indescribable horror.
- The abandoned house exuded an unsettling aura of horror, as if it held secrets too terrifying to reveal.
- The screams of agony echoing through the night brought an unspeakable horror to the sleepy town.
- The monster's grotesque appearance and malicious intentions inspired a primal horror in all who beheld it.
- The horror of the situation was compounded by the realization that it was not just a nightmare, but a terrifying reality.
- The escalating violence and brutality transformed the peaceful city into a scene of unspeakable horror.
- The horror of the Holocaust is a sobering reminder of the depths of human depravity.
- The silence after the explosion created a vacuum of horror, as if the very air had been sucked out by the magnitude of the event.
FAQs About the word horror
intense and profound fear, something that inspires horror; something horrible, intense aversionA bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement., A
frightfulness, atrocity, gruesomeness,dreadfulness, ghastliness, awfulness, sinfulness,fearfulness, torture, baseness
pleasantness, appeal, agreeableness, delightfulness,pleasantness, attraction, desirability, delightfulness, desirability, appeal
The horror of the car crash left an indelible mark on the survivors' minds.
The movie's graphic violence and jump scares were a symphony of horror.
The thought of spiders crawling over my skin filled me with indescribable horror.
The abandoned house exuded an unsettling aura of horror, as if it held secrets too terrifying to reveal.
