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Definition: Horror |
HorrorNoun1. Intense and profound fear. 2. Something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him". 3. Intense aversion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "horror" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Horror \Hor"ror\, noun. [Formerly written horrour.]. (references) |
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See:
- Horror (emotion)
- Horror fiction
- Horror film
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Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, any fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, suspenseful or frightening theme may be termed "horror"; conversely, many stories of the supernatural are not horror.
The horror novel has many antecedents, although the most obvious well-spring is the gothic novel form of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and, less obviously, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. Neither of the foregoing qualify in themselves as horror novels in that their ultimate intention is more one of mood than of shock (and Ms Shelley's is also fundamentally a philosophical novel), that sudden unquantifiable moment when one's flesh writhes. Very few writers are capable of bringing this off, and many modern practitioners of the genre have resorted to progressively greater extremes of violence in order to achieve some sort of effect. Early exponents of the horror form number such luminaries as H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, who were considered to be masters of the art.
Nevertheless, contemporary writers such as Clive Barker in The Books of Blood and Stephen King in his more considered work, such as Misery, are capable of bringing this off without grand guignol which characterises much of the current mainstream of this genre.
The rise of the Internet has allowed horror authors and fans to create new subsets of the genre. Numerous web based fanzines have provided a market for both amateur and professional writers which is (for better or for worse) unfettered by the tastes and judgments of the professional publishing houses.
See also:
External resources:
- Horror film
- List of horror fiction authors
- Psychological Horror
- "Supernatural Horror in Literature" essay by H. P. Lovecraft on horror fiction antecendents
- Table derived from the above
- Indiana University horror fiction discussion mailing list
- The Harrow horror zine
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A horror film is a film dominated by elements of horror. This film genre incorporates a number of sub-genres and repeated themes, such as slasher themes, vampire themes, zombie themes, demonic possession, alien mind control, evil children, cannibalism, werewolves, animals attacking humans, haunted houses, etc. The horror film genre is often associated with low budgets and exploitation, but major studios and well-respected directors have made intermittent forays into the genre. Some horror films exhibit a substantial amount of cross-over with other genres, particularly science fiction.
Certain stories and themes have proven popular and have inspired many sequels, remakes, and copycats. See Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, werewolves, and zombies.
History and milestones
The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. The first "monster movies" were silent shorts created by film pioneer Georges Melies in the late 1890s. The earliest horror-themed feature films were created by German filmmakers in the early 1900s; the most enduring of these is probably F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu 1922, the first vampire-themed feature. Early Hollywood dramas dabbled in horror themes including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Monster (1925) (both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror-film movie star).
It was in the early 1930s that American movie studios, particularly Universal Studios, created the modern horror film genre, bringing to the screen a series of successful gothic-steeped features including Dracula, Frankenstein (both 1931), and The Mummy (1932) (all of which spawned numerous sequels). These films, while designed to thrill, also incorporated more serious elements, and were influenced by the Freudian concepts that were gaining currency at the time. Actors, notably Boris Karloff, began to build careers around the genre.
In the nuclear-charged atmosphere of the 1950s the tone of horror films shifted away from the gothic and towards the modern. A seemingly endless parade of low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming threats from Outside: alien invasions, and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects. During this time the horror and sci-fi genres were often interchangable. These films provided ample opportunity for audience exploitation, with gimmicks such as 3-D and "Percepto" (producer William Castle's electric-shock technique used for 1957's The Tingler) drawing audiences in week after week for bigger and better scares. The better horror films of this period, including Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World (1951) and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers managed to channel the paranoia of the Cold War into atmospheric creepiness without resorting to exploitation. Filmmakers would continue to merge elements of science fiction and horror, notably in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979).
The late 1950s and early 1960s saw the rise of studios centered specifically around horror, notably British production company Hammer Films, which specialized in bloody remakes of classic horror stories, often starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and American International Pictures (AIP), which made a series of Edgar Allan Poe themed films starring Vincent Price. These sometimes-controversial productions paved the way for more explicit violence in both horror and mainstream films.
Later in the 1960s the genre moved towards non-supernatural psychological horror, with thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) using all-too-human monsters rather than supernatural ones to scare the audience. Psychological horror films would continue to appear sporadically with 1991's The Silence of the Lambs a later highlight of the subgenre.
In the late 1960s and 1970s a public fascination with the occult fed and was fed by a series of serious, supernatural-themed, often explicitly gory horror movies. Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968) was a critical and popular success and laid the groundwork for the seminal horror film The Exorcist (1973) (directed by William Friedkin and written by William Peter Blatty, who also wrote the novel). Far from exploitation, these films incorporated subtext and symbolism, and had production values equal to any serious film of the time. The Exorcist spawned numerous sequels and imitators, notably The Omen (1976).
The genre fractured somewhat in the late 1970s, with mainstream Hollywood focusing on disaster movies such as The Towering Inferno and blockbuster thrillers such as Jaws while independent filmmakers upped the ante with disturbing and explicit gore-fests such as Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). In 1978, the prototypical slasher movie, John Carpenter's Halloween, debuted to great popular success. An effective and atmospheric shocker, Halloween introduced the teens-threatened-by-superhuman-evil theme that would be copied in dozens of lesser, increasingly violent movies throughout the 1980s including the long-running Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street series, as well as several, often far-flung, sequels to Halloween itself.
With nowhere left to go in the realm of explicit violence, horror movies turned to self-mocking irony and outright parody in the 1990s. Wes Craven's Scream movies featured teenagers who were fully aware of and often made reference the history of horror movies, and mixed ironic humor with the shocks. Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films both parodied and advanced the zombie genre. Of popular recent horror films, only 1999's surprise independent hit The Blair Witch Project attempted straight-ahead scares, and then in the ironic context of a mock documentary.
Early horror entries in the 2000s have been a mixed bag of teen exploitation (such as the Final Destination movies) and more serious attempts at mainstream horror, notably the horror-suspense films of M. Night Shyamalan and Gore Verbinski's remake of the Japanese horror film Ringu, The Ring.
Lists
Notable horror film directors include:
Notable horror film actors include:
- Dario Argento
- Mario Bava
- John Carpenter
- Roger Corman
- Wes Craven
- David Cronenberg
- Terence Fisher (directed for Hammer Films)
- Lucio Fulci
- Tobe Hooper
- F. W. Murnau
- Hideo Nakata
- George A. Romero
- Leslie Stevens
- James Whale
Notable horror films include:
- Lon Chaney, Jr
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Peter Cushing
- Robert Englund
- Boris Karloff
- Christopher Lee
- Peter Lorre
- Bela Lugosi
- Donald Pleasance
- Vincent Price
See also horror fiction.
- Angel Heart
- The Blair Witch Project
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Carrie
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Dawn of the Dead
- Day of the Dead
- Dracula
- Evil Dead
- The Exorcist
- The Fly
- Frankenstein
- Friday the 13th
- Halloween
- The Haunting
- Incubus
- The Mummy
- Night of the Living Dead
- A Nightmare On Elm Street
- Nosferatu
- The Omen
- Phantasm
- Poltergeist
- Psycho
- The Ring/Ringu
- Scream
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Snake Pit
- Suspiria
- The Thing (1951 & 1982)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Vampires
- The Wolf Man
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Synonyms: HorrorSynonyms: repugnance (n), repulsion (n), revulsion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. |
Fear | Fright; affright, affrightment; boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede. |
Hate | Verb: hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl; disrelish; (dislike). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Horror |
| English words defined with "horror": Abraham Stoker, atrocious ♦ Boris Karloff, Bram Stoker ♦ call out, cry, cry out, cry-baby tree ♦ Direness, Dracula ♦ exclaim ♦ fond, frightful ♦ ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome ♦ hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, Horrification, horrified, horrify, horrifying, Horror-sticken, horror-stricken, horror-struck ♦ insubstantially ♦ Karloff ♦ macabre, mind-blowing, morbid ♦ Necrophobia ♦ outcry, outrageous ♦ partial, petrify ♦ shock, shout, Stoker, superstitious ♦ tellingly ♦ Ugh, ugly, unambiguous ♦ William Henry Pratt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "horror": crawling horror ♦ feature creature ♦ Lord ♦ regalia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "horror": Horrification. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Horror" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (horror), German (horror), Latin (awe rigidity, dread, horror, shivering), Portuguese (abhorrence, abomination, dread, fright, horror, terror), Spanish (abhorrence, abomination, awfulness, dread, fear, fright, frightfulness, horror, terror). |
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Screenplays | If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing in the horror section (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) You absolute horror of a human being (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) The sounds were real horror show (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) So Mr King, what tale of horror and the macabre are you working on now (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) What are you guys watching? Is that some horror movie (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Lyrics | Well my eyes have seen the horror (Miracle; performing artist: Jon Bon Jovi) You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes (Thriller; performing artist: Michael Jackson) | |
Clever | Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 000 Feet Horror at 37 (1973) Horror Hospital (1973) The Vault of Horror (1973) Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972) Horror of Snape Island (1972) | |
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 | A thrill of horror passed over the courtroom as the Judge pronounced the fateful words -- you are sentenced to fourteen years in the United States. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Amsterdam, Netherlands. A Dutch father, who had been severely wounded in his head, hand, and leg, stares in horror at the mutilated corpse of his little girl. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Camera Blur" by Vi Xs Commentary: "One of the very few pictures I took at the theatre watching Rocky Horror Picture show, Sadly wasn't aloud to take any, but still got a cool blur on this one." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Sinister digital sounds characteristic of a horror or suspense film. | | Scary horror movie music. |
| Electronic clackety bell sounds heard as background music in horror movies. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. |
Norman Mailer | The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Suddenly a look of horror came over her face |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Inexpressible horror of dying thus |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Imagine all this and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | John gazed at him, and a horror grew in his face |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The King was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made |
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Economic History | Cambodia | Many Cambodians welcomed the arrival of peace, but the Khmer Rouge soon turned Cambodia--which it called Democratic Kampuchea (DK)--into a land of horror.Immediately after its victory, the new regime ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns, sending the entire urban population out into the countryside to till the land. (references) |
China | After June 4, while foreign governments expressed horror at the brutal suppression of the demonstrators, the central government eliminated remaining sources of organized opposition, detained large numbers of protesters, and required political reeducation not only for students but also for large numbers of party cadre and government officials. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Joes and Janes, all the ones who fought faithfully for freedom, who hit the ground and sucked the dust and knew their share of Horror. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes. |
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| "Horror" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.61% of the time. "Horror" is used about 2,025 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.61% | 2,017 | 4,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,025 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "horror": be a real horror ♦ be transfixed with horror ♦ crawling horror ♦ fill with horror ♦ have a horror of smth. ♦ horror film ♦ horror films ♦ horror story ♦ petrified with horror ♦ tale of horror ♦ thrill with horror. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "horror": horror-comedy, horror-filled, horror-film, horror-of-it-all, horror-show, Horror-sticken, horror-story, horror-stricken, horror-striken, horror-struck, horror-thriller, horror-tv. | |
Ending with "horror": shock-horror. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
horror movie | 2,210 | halloween horror night | 65 |
horror | 2,032 | horror sex | 65 |
rocky horror picture show | 765 | pet shop of horror | 64 |
horror film | 472 | horror art | 63 |
horror story | 355 | new horror movie | 62 |
little shop of horror | 332 | horror movie poster | 59 |
amityville horror | 305 | horror movie trailer | 58 |
rocky horror | 263 | horror book | 51 |
upcoming horror movie | 232 | little shop horror lyrics | 51 |
horror picture | 171 | horror game | 50 |
horror wallpaper | 118 | horror movie wallpaper | 50 |
house of horror | 87 | erotic horror | 44 |
horror mask | 82 | horror comic | 44 |
horror movie review | 78 | survival horror | 41 |
best horror movie | 74 | horror movie picture | 40 |
rocky horror show | 74 | horror screensaver | 37 |
horror pic | 72 | horror site | 36 |
lyrics rocky horror picture show | 67 | horror photo | 35 |
horror short story | 66 | hugos house of horror | 35 |
horror dvd | 65 | true horror story | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "horror"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | horror, afskrik (abhorrence, abomination, deter, discourage, scare), afgryse (abhorrence, abomination), aakligheid (abhorrence, abomination, bad job). (various references) | |
Albanian | tmerr (consternation, dread, riding-hag, terror), neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), llahtarë (dismay, terror), llahtar (dismay, terror), lemeri (fright, funk, panic, terror), krupë (abhorrence, disgust, spew). (various references) | |
Arabic | خوف (browbeat, bully, dread, fear, fright, frighten, frightfulness, give a scare, panic, put the wind up, scare, terror, trepidation), الخوف (eeriness), الرهبة (eeriness), إشمئزاز (abhorrence, loathing, nausea, obsession, pout, qualm, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sway), رهبة (dread), رعب (awe, consternation, dismay, fright, frightfulness, panic, scare, terror, tizzy, trance), شىء مرعب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страх (alarm, apprehension, dismay, dread, fear, fright, funk, terror), ужас (abhorrence, atrocity, dread, fear, fright, frightfulness, monstrosity, recoil, scare, terror), грозотия (eyesore, gorgon, ugliness), отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener). (various references) | |
Chinese | 恐怖 (grisly, terror, thriller). (various references) | |
Czech | hrùza (awe, dread, fright, nightmare, terror), zdìšení (consternation, dismay, fright, panic, terror), protiva (beast, blighter, nark, nasty, nuisance, pig, pill, reverse, set off), nezbeda (imp), mizera (bastard, blighter, bugger, dog, rascal, rat, scamp, scoundrel, stinker, villain). (various references) | |
Danish | afsky (abhor, abhorrence, abominate, abomination, loathe). (various references) | |
Dutch | verschrikking (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity), gruweldaad (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity), gruwel (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity). (various references) | |
Esperanto | hororo, terurego (abhorrence), abomeno (abhorrence, abomination), abomenindaĵo (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity). (various references) | |
Faeroese | andstygd (abhorrence, abomination). (various references) | |
Farsi | مورمور, وحشت (Abhorrence, Awe, Dread, Fray, Fright, Jitters, Panic, Terror), ترس (Awful, Dismay, Dread, Fray, Misgiving), خوف (Scare), دهشت (Panic, Terror). (various references) | |
Finnish | kauhu (alarm, fright, terror), kauhistus (terror), kammo (abhorrence, dread). (various references) | |
French | horreur, aversion. (various references) | |
Frisian | grize (abhorrence, abomination), ôfskrik (abhorrence, abomination), ôfgriis (abhorrence, abomination). (various references) | |
German | horror (fright), greuel (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity, aversion), Abscheu (abhorrence, abomination, detestation, disgust, hatred, loathing, odium, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion). (various references) | |
Greek | φρίκη (disgust). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפלצת (bete noire, bogey, freak, monster, monstrosity), תועבה (abomination), תפלצת (panic, terror), שממון (depression, desolation, dreariness, tediousness), פלצות (shock, shudder), זועה (atrocity, enormity, frightfulness, terror), חרדה (alarm, anxiety, dread, luridness, trepidation), געל (disgust, loathing, nausea, repulsion, revulsion), בלהה (calamity, catastrophe, disaster, terror), בעתה (consternation, fear, panic), בעות (anguish, terror). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rettegés (dread, fear, psychoses, psychosis, terror), rémület (bewilderment, dismay, dread, fright, funk, scare, terror), borzalom (monstrosity, monstruosity), undorodás (distaste, loathing, nausea), szörnyűség (abnormality, enormity, monstrosity, monstruosity), iszonyodás (repulsion, shudder, shuddering), iszonyatosság (monstrosity, monstruosity), irtózás (averseness, aversion, disrelish, distaste, loathing, repulsion, shudder, shuddering), hidegrázás (cold shivers, creeps, rigor, shake, shivering-fit), borzongás (creeps, frisson, horripilation, rigor, shiver, shudder, shuddering, thrill), borzalmasság (dismalness, monstrosity, monstruosity), borzadás (shudder, shuddering). (various references) | |
Icelandic | viðbjóður (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity), grimmd (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kengerian (terror). (various references) | |
Italian | orrore (abhorrence, abomination, appal, disgust), ribrezzo (abhorrence, abomination, disgust). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホモ牛乳 (German cow race, holiday, Holstein, holster, homogenized milk, horizon), 恐れ (fear), 慄然 (shudder, trembling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おそれ (anxiety, concern, fear, uneasiness), ホラー , りつぜん (prayer to a god, shudder, trembling). (various references) | |
Korean | 공포 (Dread, Fear, Promulgating, Promulgation, terror). (various references) | |
Manx | scoagh (dread, terror), grayn (abhorrence, loathing). (various references) | |
Norwegian | redsel (agony, anguish, fear, fright), forferdelse (dismay). (various references) | |
Papiamen | debòr (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, loathing, nausea). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrorhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | horror (abhorrence, abomination, dread, terror). (various references) | |
Romanian | halucinaţii însoţite de frisoane, spaimã (affright, agony, bugaboo, dismay, dread, fear, fright, funk, scare, scourge, startle, terror), silã (coercion, compulsion, constraint, forceviolence, grudge, loathing, nausea, objection, pooh pooh, repletion), oroare (abhorrence, aversion, execration, eyesore, hideousness, recoil, repugnance, terror), grozãvie (atrocity, ripper, rodomontade, terror), groazã (affright, blue funk, dismay, dread, fearfulness, fright, nightmare, terror, ton), dezgust (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, disgust, disrelish, distaste, fulsomness, loathing, repugnance, weariness). (various references) | |
Russian | ужас ужасный, ужас (atrocity, awfulness, consternation, recoil, terribleness, terror), что-л. нелепое. (various references) | |
Scottish | uamhas (dread, monster, object of, terror). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užas (abomination, dread, terror), strava (dread, fright), jeza (chill, creeps, shiver, shudder). (various references) | |
Spanish | horror (abhorrence, abomination, awfulness, dread, fear, fright, frightfulness, terror), terror (dread, fright, intemperance, terror, terrorization), aversión (abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, indisposition, loathing, nausea). (various references) | |
Swedish | skräck (awe, dread, fright, phobia, scare, terror), fasa (abhorance, abhorrence, bevel, fright, phase, shrink back, shudder, terror). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งตกตะลึง (horror-stricken). (various references) | |
Turkish | nefret edilen şey (abhorrence, abomination, anathema), nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, contempt, despite, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repugnance, repulsion), korkutucu (alarming, forbidding, frightening, lurid, minacious, minatory, scary, spine-chilling, startling), korku (affright, alarm, apprehension, awe, dismay, dread, fear, fright, funk, gothic, misgiving, phobia, scare, trepidation), iğrenç kimse, dehşet verici (appalling, awesome, frightening, grisly, gruesome), dehşet (alarm, consternation, dismay, dread, fear, fright, frightfulness, funk, terror, trepidation). (various references) | |
Turkmen | aяylganз (fright). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страх (alarm, anxiety, apprehension, boggle, dread, fear, fray, fright), огида (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, hate, hatred, loathing, nausea, odium, repugnance, repulsion), жах (consternation, horrible, nightmare, terror). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sợ hãi (awe, scare), sự khiếp, sự ghê rợn điều kinh khủng, cảnh khủng khiếp sự ghét độc địa. (various references) | |
Welsh | erchylltod (hideousness), aruthredd (amazement, fear, wonder), arswyd (dread, terror). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominatio, atrocitas, atrox, aversantium, aversatur, aversatus, averseris, aversor, horror. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fyrhtu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Peri de hliou dusmaV ekstasiV epepesen tw abram kai idou foboV skoteinoV megaV epipiptei autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque sol occumberet sopor inruit super Abram et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eft ða on æfnunge befeol slæp on Abram, ond micel oga him becom ða mid þeostrum. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne the sunne was goon down, feer felle vpon Abram, and greet grisynes and derk assaileden hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when the sonne was doune there fell a slomber apon Abram. And loo feare and greate darknesse came apon hym. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa pagkasalop sa adlaw, miabut kang Abram ang usa ka mabug-at nga katulogon; ug, tan-awa, usa ka kakugmat sa dakung kangitngit miabut kaniya. |
| Croatian | Kad je sunce bilo pri zalazu, dubok san obuzme Abrama, a onda se na nj spusti gust mrak pun jeze. |
| Danish | Da Solen så var ved at gå ned, faldt der Dvale over Abram, og se, Rædsel faldt over ham, et stort Mørke. |
| Dutch | En het geschiedde, als de zon was aan het ondergaan, zo viel een diepe slaap op Abram; en ziet, een schrik, en grote duisternis viel op hem. |
| Finnish | Kun aurinko oli laskemaisillaan, valtasi raskas uni Abramin, ja katso, kauhu ja suuri pimeys valtasi hänet. |
| French | Au coucher du soleil, un profond sommeil tomba sur Abram; et voici, une frayeur et une grande obscurité vinrent l`assaillir. |
| German | Da nun die Sonne am Untergehen war, fiel ein tiefer Schlaf auf Abram; und siehe, Schrecken und große Finsternis überfiel ihn. |
| Hungarian | És lõn naplementekor, mély álom lepé meg Ábrámot, és ímé rémülés és nagy setétség szálla õ reá. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika matahari mulai terbenam, Abram tertidur nyenyak. Tiba-tiba ia diliputi rasa takut yang amat sangat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka apabila masuklah matahari, tiba-tiba tertidurlah Abram amat lelap, maka sesungguhnya datanglah atasnya suatu kekejutan dan kegentaran yang besar. |
| Italian | Mentre il sole stava per tramontare, un torpore cadde su Abram, ed ecco un oscuro terrore lo assalì. |
| Maori | ¶ Na, i te rerenga o te ra, ka parangia a Aperama e te moe; na ko te whakawehi o te pouri kerekere e tau iho ana ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Da nu solen var nær ved å gå ned, og en dyp søvn var falt over Abram, se, da falt redsel, et stort mørke, over ham. |
| Portuguese | Ora, ao pôr do sol, caiu um profundo sono sobre Abrão; e eis que lhe sobrevieram grande pavor e densas trevas. |
| Rumanian | La apusul soarelui, un somn adknc a cqzut peste Avram; wi iatq cq l -a apucat o groazq wi un mare kntunerec. |
| Russian | рТЙ ЪБИПЦДЕОЙЙ УПМОГБ ЛТЕРЛЙК УПО ОБРБМ ОБ бЧТБНБ, Й ЧПФ, ОБРБМ ОБ ОЕЗП ХЦБУ Й НТБЛ ЧЕМЙЛЙК. |
| Swedish | När nu solen var nära att gå ned och en tung sömn hade fallit på Abram, se, då kom en förskräckelse över honom och ett stort mörker. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "horror": horrors. (additional references) | |
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"Horror" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hartor, hiror, Hjorrow, hormo, hornor, horol, horra, horreur, horro, horrorvid, horrpr, horrror, hurron, oror, orror, phorrr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "horror" (pronounced hô"rer) |
| 3 | -ô" r er | borer, explorer, restorer, scorer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-o-r-r-r" | |
-3 letters: oho, ooh, rho. | |
-4 letters: ho, oh, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-o-o-r-r-r" | |
+1 letter: horrors. | |
+5 letters: arthrospore. | |
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