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Definition of Horrid
1. Adjective. Exceedingly bad. "When she was bad she was horrid"
2. Adjective. Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror. "Horrific conditions in the mining industry"
Similar to: Offensive
Derivative terms: Horridness, Outrage, Outrageousness
Definition of Horrid
1. a. Rough; rugged; bristling.
Definition of Horrid
1. Adjective. (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged ¹
2. Adjective. causing horror or dread ¹
3. Adjective. offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horrid
1. repulsive [adj -RIDER, -RIDEST] : HORRIDLY [adv] - See also: repulsive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horrid
Literary usage of Horrid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and in a little while they came up with us, but never was fuch a horrid fight
feen by ... horrid ..."
2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"crept into Rome, the most horrid disorders were committed there under the ...
underthe most horrid imprecations, to keep them inviolably secret. ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... parliament upon the discovery of the late horrid and treacherous design for
the destruction of this parliament and the kingdom: [the bth of June, 1643. ..."
4. Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1850)
"... by the gentlest of sisters, not by horrid pugilistic brothers; finally, that
I and they were dutiful children of a pure, holy, and magnificent church. ..."
5. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)
"Yet what he was possessed of was real—the fact that she hadn't thrown over his
lucidity the horrid shadow of cheap reprobation. Of this he had had so sore a ..."
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