terror
Intense dread, fright, or fear.
Other meanings
The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
Something or someone that causes such fear.
Related words
- terrormonger
- terrorwave
- agroterror
- antiterror
- balance of terror
- bioterror
- counterterror
- cyberterror
- ecoterror
- holy terror
- megaterror
- narcoterror
Word history
From Latin "terror" (fright, fear, terror).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “terror” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.