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.