terror

/tˈɛɹɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
2. a person who inspires fear or dread
   “he was the terror of the neighborhood”
3. a very troublesome child
4. the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
   “he used terror to make them confess”

Synonyms for terror

• panic
• affright
• scourge
• threat
• brat
• little terror
• holy terror

Words that rhyme with terror

• error
• bearer
• philanderer
• seafarer
• sharer
• starer
• wearer
• carer
• fairer
• ferrer
• harer
• kehrer
• lehrer
• mehrer
• preparer
• rarer
• scharer
• scherrer
• sherrer