horrid
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/ / /ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/ / /ˈhɑ.ɹɪd/
adj
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.
- 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.”
- 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;”
- Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
“horrid weather”
“The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.”
adv
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.
- 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.””