Horrid Definition
hôrĭd, hŏr-
adjective
horrider, horridest
Causing a feeling of horror; terrible; revolting.
Webster's New World
Extremely disagreeable; offensive.
American Heritage
Bristling; shaggy; rough.
Webster's New World
Very bad, ugly, unpleasant, etc.
Webster's New World
1668 My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame. - Samuel Pepys, Diary, October 23
About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms. - William Dampier, Voyages, I-362
Already I your tears survey,//Already hear the horrid things they say. - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, IV-108
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Horrid
Adjective
Base Form:
horrid
Comparative:
horriderSuperlative:
horridestOrigin of Horrid
Alteration (influenced by Latin horridus bristling) of Middle English horred past participle of horren to bristle from Latin horrēre to tremble, bristle
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure
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