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adjective
- 1. very unpleasant or disagreeable: "the teachers at school were horrid" Similar Opposite
- 2. causing horror: "a horrid nightmare" Similar
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horrid | American Dictionary. adjective. us / ˈhɔr·ɪd, ˈhɑr- / Add to word list. very bad or unpleasant: It was a horrid purple color which she detested. (Definition of horrid from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of horrid.
1. : innately offensive or repulsive: a. : inspiring horror : shocking. horrid living conditions. b. : inspiring disgust or loathing : nasty. a horrid man. c. : extremely bad or unpleasant : horrible. the tenor bell … gives out a horrid discordant noise Robert Graves. 2. archaic : rough, bristling. horridly adverb. horridness noun. Synonyms.
Horrid things are absolutely dreadful — they horrify or disgust you. A horrid dream can make you wake with a gasp and lie there with your heart pounding. You might cover your eyes during a particularly horrid scene in a scary movie, or skip past the horrid photos of a war zone in the newspaper.
If you describe something as horrid, you mean that it is very unpleasant indeed.
Horrid definition: such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.. See examples of HORRID used in a sentence.
1. disagreeable; unpleasant: a horrid meal. 2. repulsive or frightening. 3. informal unkind. [C16 (in the sense: bristling, shaggy): from Latin horridus prickly, rough, from horrēre to bristle] ˈhorridly adv. ˈhorridness n.
Definition of horrid adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
HORRID meaning: very unpleasant or unkind: . Learn more.
Bristling; shaggy; rough. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Very bad, ugly, unpleasant, etc. Webster's New World. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable. 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.
horrid meaning, definition, what is horrid: very unpleasant: Learn more.
