Hair-raiser (Noun)
Meaning
Excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones; "the movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The old mansion was said to be a hair-raiser, with its creepy atmosphere and mysterious noises at night.
- The movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser, full of jump scares and intense action sequences.
- The haunted house attraction was a hair-raiser, with its dark corridors and sudden appearances of ghosts.
- The steep roller coaster was a hair-raiser, sending riders plummeting down a near-vertical drop.
- The horror novel was a hair-raiser, with its vivid descriptions of supernatural events and eerie settings.