Dictionary Entry
horror
horror is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
- 4noun
That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
- 5noun
something that inspires dislike; something horrible
"the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
- 6noun
intense aversion
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- 7noun
intense and profound fear
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