horror-struck
horror-struck adjective: horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.
Adjective
horror-struck (comparative more horror-struck, superlative most horror-struck)
- Horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.
- At sight of these strange, swift, and terrible creatures, the crowd along by the water's edge seemed to me to be for a moment horror-struck.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 99
- Synonyms:
- horror-stricken
horror-struck meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
horror-struck in Malayalam
- terrified, horrified, petrified
- ഉഗ്രഭീതിയുള്ള, സംഭ്രമിച്ചാ വിഭ്രമമുള്ള, ഭീതികൊണ്ടു ഞെട്ടിയ, നടുങ്ങിയ, ചകിത, ഭ്രമാകുലമായ
horror-struck in Kannada
- ಭೀತಿಗ್ರಸ್ತ, ಭಯವಿಹ್ವಲ, ಗಾಬರಿಗೊಂಡ
Synonyms of horror-struck
Forms of horror-struck
| comparative | more horror-struck |
|---|---|
| superlative | most horror-struck |
| alternative form | horrorstruck |
Questions about horror-struck
- What does horror-struck mean?
- Horror-struck means horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.
- What is horror-struck in Malayalam?
- Horror-struck in Malayalam is ഉഗ്രഭീതിയുള്ള, സംഭ്രമിച്ചാ വിഭ്രമമുള്ള, ഭീതികൊണ്ടു ഞെട്ടിയ. See Horror-struck meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is horror-struck?
- Horror-struck is an adjective.
Words near horror-struck in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: horror-struck (page history and authors); horror-struck (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); horror-struck (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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