adj
Meaning 1
Bristling, rough, rugged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
horrid
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/
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General-American: /ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/
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New-York-City, Philadelphia: /ˈhɑ.ɹɪd/
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rhymes with -ɒɹɪd
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CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Causing horror or dread.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, butt-clenching, buttock-clenching, dismayful, dreadful, fearful, flaysome, flesh-crawling, formidable, freaky, frightening, frightensome, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, grisly, hair-curling, hair-raising, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, horripilating, pulse-pounding, scaring, scary, shocking, skin-crawling, terrible, terrifying, terrorsome
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- horrid weather
- The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
Terribly; horridly; to an extreme extent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
exceedingly bad
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- when she was bad she was horrid
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- subjected to outrageous cruelty
- a hideous pattern of injustice
- horrific conditions in the mining industry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hideous, horrific, outrageous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵhers-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵhr̥s-éh1-(ye)-ti Proto-Italic *horzēō Latin horreō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin horridusbor. English horrid Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: kauhea — causing horror or dread
- French: affreux — causing horror or dread
- French: horrible — causing horror or dread
- Ancient Greek: δασπλῆτις (dasplêtis) — causing horror or dread
- Italian: orrido — causing horror or dread
- Persian: وحشتناک — causing horror or dread
- Portuguese: horrendo — causing horror or dread
- Portuguese: horrível — causing horror or dread
- Russian: страшный (strašnyj) — causing horror or dread
- Russian: ужасный (užasnyj) — causing horror or dread
- Spanish: hórrido — causing horror or dread
- Spanish: horrendo — causing horror or dread
- Swedish: gräslig — causing horror or dread
- Esperanto: aĉa — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Finnish: kauhea — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Finnish: kamala — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Finnish: inhottava — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- French: exécrable — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- French: désagréable — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- French: abominable — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- French: ignominieux — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- French: abhorrable — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Persian: بد (bad) — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Portuguese: horrendo — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Russian: ужасный (užasnyj) — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Russian: отвратительный (otvratitelʹnyj) — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
- Swedish: gräslig — offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable