thriller
Syllables: thrill·er/ˈθɹɪ.lə/US/ˈθɹɪ.ləɹ/
thriller noun: something that thrills.
Noun
thriller (plural thrillers)
- Something that thrills.
- While Arsenal had enjoyed a Boxing Day break thanks to the cancellation of their game against West Ham, Newcastle had come out of the wrong end of a thriller at Old Trafford and Pardew said that strain accounted for his side conceding four goals at the Emirates after Demba Ba had drawn Newcastle...2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian
- A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.
- She loves to read thriller books.
- Synonyms:
- pulp novel
- A sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea flavored with a fruit or berry.
thriller meaning in Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
thriller in Marathi
- genre of fiction
- थ्रिलर thrilar
thriller in Malayalam
- അത്യന്തം സ്തോഭജനകമായ നോവലോ സിനിമയോ
thriller in Kannada
- ಕಥೆ, ಕಾದಂಬರಿ, ಚಲನಚಿತ್ರ
thriller in Arabic
- genre of fiction
- إِثَارَة ʔiṯāra, فِلْم مُثِيرَة film muṯīra, قِصَّة مُثِيرَة qiṣṣa muṯīra, ثْرِيلَّر ṯrillar
More languagesFewer languages
- thriller in Indonesian
- mencekam
- thriller in Persian
- دلهرهآور delhore-âvar, مهیج mohayyej
Examples of thriller in a sentence
- His thrillers are always a gripping read.
- The film was a dark psychological thriller.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame.
Synonyms of thriller
- pulp novel
Forms of thriller
| plural | thrillers |
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Origin of thriller
From thrill + -er.
Words formed from thriller
Words that rhyme with thriller
Questions about thriller
- What does thriller mean?
- Thriller means something that thrills.
- What is thriller in Marathi?
- Thriller in Marathi is थ्रिलर (thrilar). See Thriller meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is thriller?
- Thriller is a noun.
- How do you pronounce thriller?
- Thriller is pronounced /ˈθɹɪ.lə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of thriller?
- The plural of thriller is thrillers.
Words near thriller in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thriller (page history and authors); thriller (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thriller (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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