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Meaning of 'horror' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.

Meaning of 'horror' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . horror [ n]
Meaning (1):
- something that inspires horror; something horrible
Example in sentence:
  • the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him

Nearby Words:

horal horaly horary horatian horde hordeic hordein hordeolum hordock hore

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