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horror
English
Alternative forms
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
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 ?ga.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?h???/
- (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /?h???/
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /?h???/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Noun
horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
Synonyms
- nightmare
Hypernyms
- speculative fiction
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- horror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- horror in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- horror at OneLook Dictionary Search
Galician
Etymology
From Latin horror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ro?]
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
- horror
- Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror
Related terms
References
- “horror” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “horror” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hor?or]
- Hyphenation: hor?ror
- Rhymes: -or
Noun
horror (plural horrorok)
- horror
Declension
References
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *horz?s. Equivalent to horreo +? -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?hor.ror/, [?h?r??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?or.ror/, [??r??r]
Noun
horror m (genitive horr?ris); third declension
- bristling (standing on end)
- shaking, shivering, chill
- dread, terror, horror
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
- horrendus
- horridus
- horribilis
Descendants
References
- horror in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- horror in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- horror in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Old French
Alternative forms
- horrour
- horrur
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Noun
horror f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)
- horror or terror
Descendants
- English: horror
- Middle French: horreur
- French: horreur
Polish
Etymology
From English horror, from Latin horror.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?x?.rr?r/
Noun
horror m inan
- (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
- (film) horror movie
- Synonym: film grozy
- (literature) horror
Declension
Further reading
- horror in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- horror in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /???o?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /o??o?/
- (Paulistano) IPA(key): /o??o?/
- Hyphenation: hor?ror
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
- horror
- Synonyms: temor, terror
Related terms
- horrendo
- hórrido
- horrífero
- horrífico
- horripilar
- horrível
- horrorizar
- horroroso
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.
Cf. also the popular Old Spanish horrura, inherited from a derivative of the Latin or with a change of suffix, and taking on the meaning of "dirtiness, filth, impurity, scum"; comparable to derivatives of horridus in other Romance languages, like Italian ordo, Old French ord, French ordure, Old Catalan hòrreu, horresa, Old Occitan orre, orrezeza, Romanian urdoare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o?ro?/, [o?ro?]
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
- horror
- Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror
Related terms
References
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horrid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h???d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h???d/
Adjective
horrid (comparative horrider or more horrid, superlative horridest or most horrid)
- (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I-vii-31, 2007, A. C. Hamilton (editor), Spenser: The Faerie Qveene, Revised 2nd Edition, page 98,
- His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.
- 1637, John Milton, Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634), 1852, Henry John Todd (editor), The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 4, 5th Edition, page 113,
- Yea there, where very Desolation dwells, / By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, / She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, / Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.
- 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Aeneis, Book IX, 1779, The Works of the English Poets, Volume 18: Dryden's Virgil: Volume II, page 248,
- Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn, / Few paths of human feet, or tracks of beasts, were worn.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I-vii-31, 2007, A. C. Hamilton (editor), Spenser: The Faerie Qveene, Revised 2nd Edition, page 98,
- Causing horror or dread.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:frightening
- 1606 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV-iii, 1843, The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2: Tragedies, unnumbered page,
- Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth.
- 1611 William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, King of Britain, IV-ii, 1821, The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume V, page 369,
- Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, / that we the horrider may seem to those / Which chance to find us;
- 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, V-iv, 1866, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2, page 327,
- Set out the altar! I myself will be / The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites / You shake to think on.
- 1885 Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King: Merlin and Vivien, 1870, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, page 166,
- What say ye then to fair Sir Percivale, / And of the horrid foulness that he wrought,
- Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
- 1668 October 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1858, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Volume 4, 6th Edition, page 39,
- My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.
- 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto IV, 1836, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., page 68,
- Methinks already I your tears survey, / Already hear the horrid things they say,
- 1668 October 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1858, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Volume 4, 6th Edition, page 39,
Usage notes
- According to OED, horrid and horrible were originally almost synonymous, but in modern use horrid is somewhat less strong and tending towards the "offensive, disagreeable" sense.
Synonyms
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- awful
- dire
- dreadful
- frightful
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrible
- revolting
- shocking
- terrific
Translations
References
- horrid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- horrid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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