Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing horror; dreadful.
- adjective Extremely disagreeable; offensive.
- adjective Archaic Bristling; rough.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rough; rugged; bristling.
- Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; shocking: as, a horrid spectacle.
- Very bad or offensive; abominable; execrable.
- [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.]
- Synonyms Horrible, frightful, awful, appalling, harrowing, dire, revolting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Rough; rugged; bristling.
- adjective Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
bristling ,rough ,rugged - adjective causing
horror ordread - adjective
offensive ,disagreeable ,abominable ,execrable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
- adjective exceedingly bad
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"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 L. T. Meade 1884
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'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 Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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"How you must have suffered all this cruel time, pent up there in that horrid, _horrid_ place!
The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886
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Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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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 S. T. Karnick 2010
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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 2009
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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 2009
yarb commented on the word horrid
Citation on curry.
June 23, 2008
rudabeckia commented on the word horrid
"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."
February 14, 2009
plethora commented on the word horrid
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.
February 14, 2009
dontcry commented on the word horrid
*sniff*
February 14, 2009
sionnach commented on the word horrid
But at least you are not made of snails and puppydogs' tails, pleth.
February 14, 2009