chiller

1. 1.

   excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones

   “the movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser”

   Synonymshair-raiser

   Broaderexcitation

Other forms of chiller

plural

chillers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chiller

What does chiller mean?

chiller means "excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones".

How many syllables are in chiller?

chiller has 2 syllables: chil-ler. The stress falls on "chil". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɪlɚ/.

What is another word for chiller?

Close synonyms include hair-raiser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chiller a common word?

chiller is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.