Horrid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing horror; dreadful.
  • adj. Extremely disagreeable; offensive.
  • adj. Archaic Bristling; rough.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. bristling, rough, rugged
  • adj. causing horror or dread
  • adj. offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Rough; rugged; bristling.
  • adj. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
  • adj. exceedingly bad
  • Equivalent
    offensive    bad   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abominable    alarming    frightful    shocking    hideous    terrific    horrible    awful    dreadful    rough   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    florid    torrid   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    horrible    frightful    ugly    ghastly    unpleasant    foul    unnatural    dismal