| 单词 | horror |
| 释义 | horror /hawr"euhr, hor"-/, n. 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. Informal. something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror. 6. horrors, Informal. a. See delirium tremens. b. extreme depression. adj. 7. inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity. 8. centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie. interj. 9. horrors, (used as a mild expression of dismay, surprise, disappointment, etc.) [1520-30; < L horror, equiv. to horr- (s. of horrere to bristle with fear; see HORRENDOUS) + -or -OR1; r. ME orrour < AF < L horror-, s. of horror] Syn. 1. dread, dismay, consternation. See terror. 4. loathing, antipathy, detestation, hatred, abomination. Ant. 1. serenity. 4. attraction. |
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