i Register
In some senses, horrid is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
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
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.”