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[ thril-er ] / ˈθrɪl ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR thriller ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person or thing that thrills. an exciting, suspenseful play or story, especially a mystery story. Origin of thriller1885–90; 1920–25 for def. 2; thrill + -er1 Words nearby thrillerthrift, thriftless, thriftshop, thrifty, thrill, thriller, thrilling, thrill-seeker, thrill to pieces, thrippence, thrips Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for thrillerThriller author Patrick Oster was a reporter in Berlin when the wall came down 25 years ago. How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin Wall|William O’Connor|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST What prompted you to pick the fall of the Berlin Wall as the backdrop for your thriller? How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin Wall|William O’Connor|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST With Thriller, we took 800 songs and whittled them down to nine. Quincy Jones Talks Chicago’s Mean Streets, Why Kanye West Is No Michael Jackson, and Bieber|Marlow Stern|September 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST He believed American audiences were ready for a thriller set in Africa. How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It)|Todd Moss|September 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His detective novels contain none of the twists that strain credulity so often relied upon by thriller novelists. What Would You Do if the World Was Over?|William O’Connor|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST After the baseball news and a fair start in the thriller, he indulged further in past grievances. This was a thriller that appealed to the familiar in him,—the impishness that died hard. Joyce of the North Woods|Harriet T. Comstock If she only could write scenarios, what a thriller this would make! Exit Betty|Grace Livingston Hill These books are quite different from the ordinary detective novel and from the more traditional type of thriller. Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee|Ronald Macmillan Algie “But a thriller,” Ace assured them, as Norris lighted his pipe on the lee of a bowlder. Unexplored!|Allen Chaffee
British Dictionary definitions for thriller
nouna book, film, play, etc, depicting crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense a person or thing that thrills Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to thrillerriddle, conundrum, subtlety, question, enigma, secrecy, problem, tension, anxiety, apprehension, confusion, uncertainty, doubt, insecurity, puzzlement, close call, shocker, mystification, perplexity, stickler Cultural definitions for thriller
A suspenseful, sensational story or film: “Ken Follett writes best-selling spy thrillers.” notes for thrillerIn Great Britain, the word thriller is sometimes used for all mystery novels: “Martha Grimes, an American, writes British-style thrillers.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |