horrors

noun

plural of horror
1
as in nightmares
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness had never experienced the horrors of war

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2
as in messes
something unpleasant to look at are you really going to hang that horror on the wall?

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3
as in hatreds
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness cat lover or no, she regards cleaning the litter box with horror

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Recent Examples of horrors The horrors of the atomic bomb, America’s culpability and relation to postwar Japan, and the morality of revenge are major themes in Minus Zero. — James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026 When Eric Bentley assembled this 1972 docudrama from House Un-American Activities Committee transcripts, the playwright savvily stripped his work of dramatic license and laid bare the Red Scare’s horrors. — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2026 Erin believes that success here will protect her daughter from the horrors of our fickle world… won’t it? — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026 Decades earlier, Atlanta had thrown its own enormous party, celebrating a fantasy of Southern womanhood while reinforcing the racial and social hierarchies of the real South—and conveniently leaving the horrors of slavery out of the picture. — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026 The scene serves as an intimate and visceral analogy to the more diffuse horrors of war. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026 Even then, my understanding of the horrors these people had endured and survived was superficial. — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026 Though dreams are tangled up in our desires, Freud’s royal road to the unconscious is not unlike the road in Lost Highway, and other similar Möbius strip horrors, such as the purgatorial Dead End. — Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026 In recent years, the British monarchy has adopted a more conciliatory tone when addressing the horrors of slavery. — Rupert Neate, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrors
  1. nightmares
  2. messes
  3. revulsions
  4. agonies
  5. frights
  6. tortures
  7. sights
  8. miseries
Noun
  • California dreams and nightmares The Cheesecake Factory is a punchline.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • These are four buck stories that still haunt our dreams—no, nightmares—to this very day.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of nightmares
Noun
  • Andrew Schaefer, a forty-two-year-old father in Orlando, Florida, who helps people out of tax messes, also likes to wager on elections.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Instead of bright or pure white finishes, creamy tones are more forgiving against scuffs, fingerprints, smudges, and everyday kitchen messes.
    — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of messes
Noun
  • The deepest reason for this near-universal futility is that most of us remain imprisoned by the delusions of the ego, suffering from alternating cravings and revulsions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
Definition of revulsions
Noun
  • There are few harsher agonies than waiting, and throughout the great expanse of the CPKC ‘International’ Grand Prix presented by Rolex at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’, two riders felt that in very different ways.
    — Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Sadly, in discouraging all the phantom agonies, FIFA inadvertently seems to have done away with the equally farcical phenomenon that is Magic Spray®.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of agonies
Noun
  • And that’s where the frights, heightened by the intimacy of the van, come in.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But not everyone wants to be up close and personal the with the IRL frights of a haunted house or spooky corn maze.
    — Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of frights
Noun
  • Penal Code 597 states that any person who who maliciously and intentionally maims, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal is guilty of a crime.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Tykes get slapped around, shot with arrows and dangled in traffic — tortures that are played seriously, but the shock of them allows you to guffaw.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Definition of tortures
Noun
  • That was the case in 2019 when the department set its sights on Organ Pipe.
    — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026
  • After mudslides in Big Sur caused a three-year closure, some of the most scenic sections of the Pacific Coast Highway have been reopened, giving travelers the opportunity to take in the inspirational sights of California’s coastline.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of sights
Noun
  • Some residents said hope is elusive given the island’s litany of miseries – from natural disasters to a bankrupt government to a financial control board that manages funding for infrastructure.
    — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Cyclospora, an intestinal parasite, has sickened thousands of people and hospitalized hundreds with explosive diarrhea, painful cramping, or other gastrointestinal miseries.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of miseries

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“Horrors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrors. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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