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Definition: Horror-stricken |
Horror-strickenAdjective1. Stricken with horror. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "horror-stricken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Horror-strickenSynonyms: horrified (adj), horror-struck (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics. |
Pain | Concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief; Noun: in tears; (lamenting); steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Horror-stricken" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Horror-stricken" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "horror-stricken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), поразен от ужас. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goaill scoagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orror-strickenhay пораженный ужасом (aghast, horror-struck). (various references) ซึ่งตกตะลึง. (various references) dehşete kapılmış (awestruck, horrified, horror-struck, terrified, terror stricken, terror-haunted, terror-struck), dehşete düşmüş (consternated, frightened, funky, horrified, horror-struck, terrified). (various references) kinh hãi (horror-struck), khiếp sợ (dreadfully, horror-struck, windy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-k-n-o-o-r-r-r-r-s-t" | |
-4 letters: rhinoceros. | |
-5 letters: chorister, cortisone, isochrone, orthicons, rhetorics, schnorrer, torchiers, tricornes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 72 72 6F 72 2D 73 74 72 69 63 6B 65 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110010 00101101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o r r o r - s t r i c k e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0072 0072 006F 0072 002D 0073 0074 0072 0069 0063 006B 0065 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)428184848184158586847569777180 |
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