Word Meanings - HORROR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman. 2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering,
Additional info about word: HORROR
horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman. 2. 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. 3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered Milton. 4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HORROR)
- Consternation
- Amazement
- bewilderment
- astonishment
- astounding
- horror
- terror
- dismay
- Dread
- Fear
- shuddering
- alarm
- intimidation
- apprehension
- Apprehension
- solicitude alarm
- fright
- dread
- trepidation
- consternation
- misgiving
- timidity
- awe
- Terror
- flight
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HORROR)
Related words: (words related to HORROR)
- ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - DREADNOUGHT
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by - APPREHENSION
1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - TERRORLESS
Free from terror. Poe. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight. - MISGIVING
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South. - ALARM
1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in - SOLICITUDE
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - DREADFUL
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3. - EMBOLDENER
One who emboldens. - TERRORIZE
To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds. - ALARMABLE
Easily alarmed or disturbed. - TIMIDITY
The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness. - FRIGHT
forhta, OHG. forhta, forahta, G. furcht, Dan. frygt, Sw. fruktan, 1. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. 2. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing - FRIGHTFULNESS
The quality of being frightful. - DREADFULNESS
The quality of being dreadful. - SUTURALLY
In a sutural manner. - CENTRALLY
In a central manner or situation. - UNASSURED
1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor. - PREAPPREHENSION
An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne. - ORALLY
1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher. - AFFRIGHTER
One who frightens. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - LATERALLY
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side. - LITERALLY
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.