horrornoun
uk/ˈhɒr.ər/us/ˈhɔːr.ɚ/B2 [ U ] an extremely strong feeling of fear and shock, or the frightening and shocking character of something:
The crowd cried out in horror as the car burst into flames.
The thought of speaking in front of so many people fills me with horror.
I then realized to my absolute horror, that I had forgotten the present.
What the book does convey very successfully is the horror of war.
horrors [ plural ]
things that are very shocking or frightening:
The population now faces the horrors of starvation.
Nuclear war is one of the horrors that face the modern world.
[ C ] informal a child who behaves very badly:
Her youngest boy is a little horror.
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- Few journalists have managed to convey the full horror of the situation.
- We watched in horror as they pulled the bodies from the wreckage.
- The prospect of parenthood filled her with horror.
- The true horror of the accident did not become clear until the following morning.
- Local people regard this idea of a motorway through their village with horror.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fear & phobias
- acrophobia
- aerophobia
- agoraphobic
- alarm
- arachnophobia
- bogey
- chill
- claustrophobia
- cold sweat
- fearful
- fright
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- hydrophobic
- mortal
- panic
- panic stations
- phobia
- terror
- xenophobe
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Serious and unpleasant
Unpleasant people in general
Idiom(s)
have a horror of sth
horror of horrors