horror

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear. See Synonyms at fear.
2. n. Intense dislike; abhorrence.
3. n. A cause of horror.
4. n. Informal Something unpleasant, ugly, or disagreeable: That hat is a horror.
5. n. Informal Intense nervous depression or anxiety. Often used with the.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bristling or ruffling, as of the surface of water; a rippling.
2. n. A shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever, usually accompanied with contraction and roughening of the skin; a rigor.
3. n. A painful emotion of fear or abhorrence; a shuddering with terror or loathing; the feeling inspired by something frightful or shocking.
4. n. Shrinking dread; great dislike or repugnance: as, to hold publicity in horror; to have a horror of falsehood.
5. n. That which excites horror or terror; that which causes gloom or dread: as, the horrors of war; a place of horrors.
6. n. Delirium tremens.

Wiktionary

1. n. An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
2. n. An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
3. n. A literary genre, generally of a gothic character.
4. n. informal An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Archaic A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
2. n. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
3. n. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
4. n. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. intense aversion
2. n. something that inspires dislike; something horrible
3. n. intense and profound fear