horror

About 10.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
2. noun Something horrible; that which excites horror.

   I saw many horrors during the war.

3. noun Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
4. noun A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. An individual work in this genre.
5. noun An individual work in this genre.
6. noun A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

   The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!

7. noun An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
8. noun Delirium tremens.

Similar words

repugnance revulsion repulsion terror fear scary scare horrifying anxiety horrible

Often followed by

of and at that stories in as to film

Word family

horrors