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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing horror; dreadful.
  2. adj. Extremely disagreeable; offensive.
  3. adj. Archaic Bristling; rough.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Rough; rugged; bristling.
  2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; shocking: as, a horrid spectacle.
  3. Very bad or offensive; abominable; execrable.
  4. [Horrid and horrible, originally distinct in meaning in their Latin forms, but sometimes used interchangeably by later writers, are now almost entirely synonymous in English; but horrid commonly has a milder or less positive force than horrible.]
  5. Synonyms Horrible, frightful, awful, appalling, harrowing, dire, revolting.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. archaic bristling, rough, rugged
  2. adj. causing horror or dread
  3. adj. offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Archaic Rough; rugged; bristling.
  2. adj. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
  2. adj. exceedingly bad

Etymologies

  1. From Latin horridus ("rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude"), from horrere ("to bristle"). See horrent, horror, ordure (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration (influenced by Latin horridus, bristling) of Middle English horred, past participle of horren, to bristle, from Latin horrēre, to tremble, bristle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I mean," said Sibyl, "that you have got to reward me for doing your horrid -- _horrid_, dirty work!”

    Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School

  • “I don't care,' she said to herself as she trudged along in silence beside Miss Neale; 'they're horrid to me -- _horrid_.”

    The Rectory Children

  • “How you must have suffered all this cruel time, pent up there in that horrid, _horrid_ place!”

    The Missing Merchantman

  • “Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Pawprints of History

  • “Espying a sinister pattern behind these events, Grose bemoans what she characterizes as a horrid resurgence of puritanism that has become a common attitude among young females and is somehow perverting even once-sensible feminists such as Ms. Klausner:”

    Political Mavens

  • “Not to be unfairly biased, but for some reason I think older women should have more sense about dressing than a young girl so when I see them in horrid clothing I feel sad and discouraged, because it makes me think that widsom and good judgement don't come with age.”

    Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine

  • “Anna -- regarding your "food for thought" comment: viewing a captive living in horrid conditions should make any woman less likely to complain.”

    An Enduring Marriage

  • “The United States and Europe are in horrid fiscal shape, but claiming Doomsday scenarios as scare tactic is base and unworthy.”

    No Entitlements Crisis?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

  • “Plush, swashbuckling classic with luscious color and a youthfully attractive cast (yep, even in horrid stage makeup Eleanor Parker looks so lovely).”

    2008 August : Scrubbles.net

  • “I'd feel comfortable taking it on tree-stand deer hunts, open-country elk and muley hunts, or north-country adventures in horrid weather conditions.”

    Compound Bow

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synonyms (19)

Words with the same meaning

  1. abominable
  2. alarming
  3. frightful
  1. shocking
  2. hideous
  3. terrific
  1. horrible
  2. awful
  3. dreadful
  1. rough
  2. rugged
  3. bristling
  1. repellent
  2. offensive
  3. bad
  1. appalling
  2. revolting
  3. dire
  1. harrowing

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘horrid’

  1. offensive
  1. bad

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. horrible
  1. frightful
  1. ugly
  1. ghastly
  1. unpleasant
  1. foul
  1. unnatural
  1. dismal

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. florid
  1. torrid

reverse dictionary (13)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. horrid
  2. deform
  1. horridly
  2. horridness
  1. grisliness
  2. Gorgon
  1. hick
  2. foul
  1. abominable
  2. dreadful
  1. hateful
  2. hideous
  1. horrible

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  • sionnach But at least you are not made of snails and puppydogs' tails, pleth. Feb 14, 2009

  • dontcry *sniff* Feb 14, 2009

  • plethora I cannot count the number of times that little rhyme was used to describe me as a child.

    I was, of course, a curly-haired, mercurial little beast. Feb 14, 2009

  • rudabeckia "There was a little girl,
    Who had a little curl,
    Right in the middle of her forehead.
    When she was good,
    She was very good indeed,
    But when she was bad she was horrid." Feb 14, 2009

  • yarb Citation on curry. Jun 23, 2008

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