horrid

UK /ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/ US /ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/
adj 3adv 1

Definitions

adj

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.

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;

3

Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

horrid weather

The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.

adv

1

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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