terror

Meaning

1. Intense dread, fright, or fear.
2. The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
3. Something or someone that causes such fear.
4. Terrorism.
5. A night terror.
6. (slang) A strict teacher that fails most of the students.

Concepts

terror

fear

dread

fright

horror

alarm

panic

consternation

apprehension

scare

great fear

awe

terrorism

dismay

shock

affright

little terror

scourge

threat

anguish

anxiety

brat

holy terror

madcap

trembling

pavor

reign of terror

savage

thug

wild man

love

mirth

resentment

sorrow

surprise

astonishment

danger

disaster

menace

storm

distress

extreme fear

threatening

tomboy

romp

difficulty

poison

funk

quake

tremble

tremor

trepidation

palpitation due to fright

chill

enfant terrible

compulsion

duress

insistence

necessity

collision

jolt

over-excitement

rash

flight

terrorist

dreadful

horrible

frightening

frightful

terrible

scariness

affrightment

deer in the headlights

jitter

kerfuffle

dwere

Hyphenated as

ter‧ror

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

Etymology

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).