Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful book, story, play, or movie.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something which thrills or affects with a tingling sensation of pleasure or, occasionally, pain; a shocker; specifically, a shilling shocker.
- noun One who thrills others; specifically, a writer of ‘thrillers’ or shilling shockers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that
thrills . - noun A
suspenseful ,sensational genre ofstory ,book ,play orfilm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
Etymologies
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Examples
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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?
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Miss Snark, Is the term thriller widely taken to mean plot-driven, as opposed to character-driven?
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Regardless of the background, the thriller is the foreground.
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The fact that it's a thriller is all the much better for me.
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In Angelina Jolie's new spy thriller, is her Evelyn A. Salt really a brunette?
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I am very tired of seeing this in thriller movies.
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The world of the thriller is rigid, frozen, unchanging.
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In Sins, the thriller is more to the forefront than in its predecessor.
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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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