Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful book, story, play, or movie.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Something which thrills or affects with a tingling sensation of pleasure or, occasionally, pain; a shocker; specifically, a shilling shocker.
- n. One who thrills others; specifically, a writer of ‘thrillers’ or shilling shockers.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that thrills.
- n. A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
Etymologies
- to thrill + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Really, the term thriller is sort of given to anything that is a mystery or whatever.”
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“Is the term thriller widely taken to mean plot-driven, as opposed to character-driven?”
“Miss Snark, Is the term thriller widely taken to mean plot-driven, as opposed to character-driven?”
“Regardless of the background, the thriller is the foreground.”
“The fact that it's a thriller is all the much better for me.”
“In Sins, the thriller is more to the forefront than in its predecessor.”
“It's a bit early to know exactly how supernatural this thriller is going to get, but "Dream House" smells faintly of "The Shining.”
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“In Angelina Jolie's new spy thriller, is her Evelyn A. Salt really a brunette?”
“I am very tired of seeing this in thriller movies.”
“The world of the thriller is rigid, frozen, unchanging.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thriller’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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English words used in Czech
best-seller, peeling, piercing, snowboard, skateboard, all inclusive, know-how, image, swing, party, spam, playback and 32 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Literally Literary
Words about literature
novel, novella, drabble, serial, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, epic fantasy, science-fantasy, romance, thriller, fiction and 13 more...
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Let's Go To the Movies
Film genres. Also see film--1 by bradleyrturner.
silent, talkie, drama, coming-of-age, comedy, black comedy, buddy movie, slapstick, romance, romcom, tearjerker, period piece and 44 more...
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define me - genre
books, movies, etc. Any style and type, both mainstream and minor
drama, comedy, tragedy, horror, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, historical, musical, romance, cyberpunk, animation and 11 more...
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The Form and Function of Genres
wuxia, dramedy, bildungsroman, blaxploitation, sexploitation, tokusatsu, epic, cyberpunk, mystery, romance, fantasy, drama and 21 more...
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gelbbauchige_unke's Words
knox, kaiserschmarrn, quantensingularität, mcgyver, zeitparadoxon, asgard, schnuckl, saubauch, telefonterror, jack, grasshopper, hölle and 51 more...
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