horrid
pronunciation
How to pronounce horrid in British English:
UK [ˈhɒrɪd]
How to pronounce horrid in American English:
US [ˈhɔrɪd]
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- Adjective:
- exceedingly bad
- grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Word Origin
- horrid (adj.)
- early 15c., "hairy, shaggy, bristling," from Latin horridus "bristly, prickly, rough, horrid, frightful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Meaning "horrible, causing horror" is from c. 1600. Sense weakened 17c. to "unpleasant, offensive." [W]hile both [horrible and horrid] are much used in the trivial sense of disagreeable, horrible is still quite common in the graver sense inspiring horror, which horrid tends to lose .... [Fowler] Related: Horridly.
Example
- 1. Having a weeping pa is horrid .
- 2. If so , they might well have expected to make a better job of relations with the natives than had the horrid portuguese catholics .
- 3. Ending a marriage is horrid .
- 4. They often have horrid lives .
- 5. The latter have taken some horrid hits on their past banking investments .