horror

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒɹ.ə/    美 /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. countable,uncountable
    — Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
  2. Something horrible; that which excites horror. countable,uncountable
    — I saw many horrors during the war.
  3. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. countable,uncountable
    — “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”
  4. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. uncountable
    — Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
  5. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.; An individual work in this genre. countable
  6. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. colloquial,countable
    — The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  7. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors. countable,informal,uncountable
  8. Delirium tremens. countable,in-plural,informal,uncountable
    — `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'

词形变化

horrors plural horrour alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
nightmare
上位词
speculative fiction
衍生词
analog horror analogue horror Belsen horror body horror chamber of horrors digital horror dry horrors ecohorror Eurohorror folk horror fridge horror horror autotoxicus horror chamber horrorcore horrorfest horror film horror flick horrorful horrorist horrorize horrormeister horrormonger horror movie horror of horrors horrorous horror punk horrorscope horror show horror-show horrorsome horror story horror-stricken horror-struck horrorthon horror-thriller horror vacui horrorzine house of horrors J-horror K-horror mascot horror midnight horror nonhorror outhorror psychological horror quiet horror shock horror survival horror technohorror
相关词
horrendous horrible horrid horrific horrifical horrification horrify

词源

From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
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