Synonyms for terror
Definitions
- n. 1
Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- n. 2
The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- n. 3
Something or someone that causes such fear.
Related words
- Word family
- terrorize terrorism terrormonger terrorstruck terrible terrific terrify
- Phrases
- holy terror reign of terror night terror sleep terror stochastic terror terror bird yellow terror
- Is a kind of
- fear
Forms
- Plural
- terrors → fears, horrors, panics, dreads…
Choose the right word
A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- panic He told himself that there was no reason to panic.
- scare Don't worry, we're just going to give him a scare.
- dread My feelings of dread of being watched were strong.
- fright A little stage fright is normal before a concert.
By length
- 3 letters
- awe1
- 4 letters
- fear1, brat1, fere, feer
- 5 letters
- panic2, alarm2, scare1, dread1
- 6 letters
- threat1, horror2, fright1, dismay2, affray
- 7 letters
- scourge1
- 8 letters
- affright
- 11 letters
- trepidation4
- 12 letters
- intimidation5
- 13 letters
- consternation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (panic2 = 2 syllables).