horror
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Noun 4 meanings
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Something horrible; that which excites horror.
“I saw many horrors during the war.”
Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
Etymology
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
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HORROR at a glance
HORROR has 6 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (H 4 + O 1 + R 1 + R 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,365 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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