About The Word Horrid
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Horrid
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What's The Definition Of Horrid?
[adj] exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
[adj] grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" Synonyms | Synonyms for Horrid: bad | hideous | horrific | offensive | outrageous Related Terms | Find terms related to Horrid: abhorrent | abominable | appalling | arrant | astounding | atrocious | awe-inspiring | awesome | awful | baneful | base | beastly | beneath contempt | blameworthy | brutal | contemptible | deplorable | despicable | detestable | dire | direful | disgusting | dread | dreaded | dreadful | egregious | enormous | fell | fetid | filthy | flagrant | forbidding | formidable | foul | frightful | fulsome | ghastly | ghoulish | grievous | grim | grisly | gross | gruesome | hateful | heinous | hideous | horrendous | horrible | horrific | horrifying | infamous | lamentable | loathsome | lousy | lurid | macabre | monstrous | morbid | nasty | nefarious | noisome | notorious | obnoxious | odious | offensive | outrageous | pitiable | pitiful | rank | redoubtable | regrettable | repellent | repelling | reprehensible | repugnant | repulsive | revolting | rotten | sad | scandalous | schlock | schrecklich | scurvy | shabby | shameful | shocking | shoddy | sordid | squalid | terrible | terrific | terrifying | too bad | tragic | tremendous | unclean | unspeakable | vile | villainous | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched See Also | Horrid In Webster's Dictionary \Hor"rid\, a. [L. horridus. See {Horror}, and cf.
{Ordure}.]
1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic]
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
--Dryden.
2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking;
hence, very offensive.
Not in the legions Of horrid hell. --Shak.
The horrid things they say. --Pope.
Syn: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful;
terrific; horrible; abominable.
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