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.

Synonyms

fear

😨

dread

fright

horror

alarm

panic

consternation

scare

😨

apprehension

affright

scourge

shock

⚡

terrorism

awe

threat

dismay

little terror

great fear

brat

wild man

trembling

reign of terror

madcap

thug

pavor

anxiety

savage

anguish

holy terror

romp

scariness

sorrow

storm

surprise

terrible

terrorist

threatening

tomboy

tremble

tremor

trepidation

love

❤️

extreme fear

palpitation due to fright

affrightment

deer in the headlights

dwere

astonishment

chill

collision

💥

compulsion

danger

❗

difficulty

disaster

distress

dreadful

duress

enfant terrible

flight

✈️

frightening

frightful

funk

horrible

insistence

jitter

jolt

kerfuffle

menace

mirth

necessity

over-excitement

poison

quake

rash

resentment

Hyphenated as

ter‧ror

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: terrour

In summary

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”).