horror: Meaning and Definition of

hor•ror

1. an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
2. anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
3. such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation.
4. a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
5. something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.
1. Seedelirium tremens.
2. extreme depression.

1. inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.
2. centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie.

1. (used as a mild expression of dismay, surprise, disappointment, etc.)