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/ˈhɒɹ.ə/ · noun
(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance..
Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
I saw many horrors during the war.
The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
Could there be stories with more horror than these?
“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”
Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
Use horror when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Horror means (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance..
Common synonyms include nightmare, revulsion, repulsion, repugnance.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
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