Horror word meaning and definition

Beside meaning and definition for word "horror", on this page you can find other interesting information too, like synonyms or related words. On bottom of the page we have fun area, like tarot cards, numerology for these Six characters, how to write "horror" with bar codes or hand signs and more.. Table of Contents:

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• Synonyms for horror
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Meaning and definition for "horror" word

[noun] something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
[noun] intense aversion
[noun] intense and profound fear

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\Hor"ror\, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr. horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h?sh to bristle.] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. --Chapman. 2. 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. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton. 4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope. {The horrors}, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

Synonyms for horror

repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

Related terms: abhorrence, allergy, antipathy, bugaboo, clawing, consternation, creeping flesh, fear and trembling, fee-faw-fum, funk, ghoul, hell, hell upon earth, holy terror, incubus, ogre, persecution, revulsion, scarecrow, shuddering, vampire, Wolf-man

The fun area, different aproach to word »horror«

Let's analyse "horror" as pure text. This string has Six letters in Two syllables and Two vowels. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: RORROH. Average typing speed for these characters is 1545 milliseconds. [info]

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Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: horror: 6 + 6 = 12, reduced: 3 . and the final result is Three.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: horror: 8 + 6 + 9 + 9 + 6 + 9 = 47, reduced: 11, and the final result is Eleven.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
H (1)	8	Strength	Couragous, Faithful, Caring
O (2)	15	Devil	Optimist, Gamesman, Marketer, Hunter
R (3)	18	Moon	Patient, Determined, Strong

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