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horrid

adj
/ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/UK/ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/US/ˈhɑ.ɹɪd/

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.

  1. borrowed from horridus

Definitions

  1. Bristling, rough, rugged.

    • His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.
    • Yea there, where very Desolation dwells, / By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, / She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, / Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.
    • Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn, / Few paths of human feet, or tracks of beasts, were worn.

  2. Causing horror or dread.

    • Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth.
    • Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, / that we the horrider may seem to those / Which chance to find us;
    • Set out the altar! I myself will be / The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites / You shake to think on.

  3. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

    • horrid weather
    • The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Terribly

      Terribly; horridly; to an extreme extent.

      • “Beg y’ pardon, sir,” said a voice at the tent door; “but Dormer’s ’orrid bad, sir, an’ they’ve taken him orf, sir.”

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Derived

horridly, horridness, horridsome

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA