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

1. noun. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
2. noun. 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. noun. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
4. noun. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
5. noun. something that inspires dislike; something horrible

   "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"

6. noun. intense aversion

   Synonyms: repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

7. noun. intense and profound fear

Synonyms

repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

Common word forms

horrors, horrorful, horrorize, horrorous

Words from these letters

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