thriller Hear it!

thriller Definition

thriller (t̸hrilər)

noun

  1. a person or thing that thrills
    1. a suspenseful novel, play, film, etc.
    2. Chiefly Brit. such a novel, film, etc. dealing with crime and detection

thriller Usage Examples

Preposition: with

  • twist: Yes it's just another by the numbers thriller with no new twists.

Converse of object

  • crack: Minority Report, his first film with his new best mate Steven Spielberg, was a cracking science fiction thriller.
  • pace: A fast paced thriller with a bit of a message thrown in.
  • absorb: The book is both a love story and a tense and absorbing thriller.

Adjective modifier

  • gripping: The Wind Singer - William Nicholson ( £ 5.99 ): for older readers, a gripping thriller.
  • supernatural: For instance, Stir of Echoes was a solid supernatural thriller which was wrongly branded a Sixth Sense clone.
  • taut: Ultimately 16 Blocks is a taut little thriller that goes the distance.
  • psychological: Most recently he starred in ITV's two-part psychological thriller, ' Donovan ' .
  • fast-paced: The TV star, due to give birth next March, plays the lead in fast-paced Northern crime thriller Blue Murder.
  • tense: What follows is a tense, brutal thriller that leaves you questioning whether Harris's results justify his means.

Modifies a noun

  • serial: Such a situation is found in the new six-part Sunday thriller serial, The Sleeper, which begins tonight.
  • genre: He has come from nowhere to being one of the thriller genre 's biggest stars.
  • writer: I'll even quote what it says on the back cover ' Other thriller writers talk the talk.
  • novel: Adrian Flanagan - new thriller novel, Cobra Adrian Flanagan, english author of the thriller novel Cobra about modern day piracy.

Noun used with modifier

  • suspense: Well, Brown weaves them into a modern-day suspense thriller about attempts to discover or destroy evidence of our " true " history.
  • sci-fi: You can direct your friends in a sci-fi thriller, animate your own cartoon, or keep a video diary.
  • spy: He played three different roles in the third series of the spy thriller series Danger Man.
  • noir: They first came to prominence some 20 years ago, with their dark noir thriller, Blood Simple.
  • espionage: Krasnoyarsk Surely worthy of the opening chapter of a cold war espionage thriller.
  • science-fiction: Seeking finance & company associations, eg product placements for original science-fiction thriller.

Browse dictionary entries near thriller

  1. thrilled
  2. thrill
  3. thrifty
  4. thriftless
  5. thrift shop
  6. thrift institution
  7. thrift
  8. thrice
  9. threw
  10. threshold
  1. thrilling
  2. thrips
  3. thrive
  4. thriving
  5. thro'
  6. throat
  7. -throated
  8. throatlatch
  9. throaty
  10. throb