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adjective
- 1. very unpleasant or disagreeable: "the teachers at school were horrid"
- 2. causing horror: "a horrid nightmare"
Horrid means inspiring horror, disgust, or extreme badness. Learn the synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles of horrid from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Horrid means extremely bad, awful, or horrible, or literally causing horror. It comes from the Latin horridus, meaning "prickly" or "rough", and is related to the word horror.
Horrid things are absolutely dreadful — they horrify or disgust you. A horrid dream can make you wake with a gasp and lie there with your heart pounding. You might cover your eyes during a particularly horrid scene in a scary movie, or skip past the horrid photos of a war zone in the newspaper.
Horrid means unpleasant or unkind, or very bad or unpleasant. Learn more about its usage, pronunciation, and translations in different languages.
Horrid means very unpleasant, repulsive, or unkind. It can describe something or someone. See synonyms, pronunciation, examples, and word origin of horrid.
Horrid means unpleasant or unkind, or very bad or unpleasant. Learn how to use this old-fashioned informal adjective with synonyms, antonyms, and examples from various sources.
Horrid is an adjective that means very unpleasant or unkind. It is often used in British English and is a synonym of horrible. See examples, pronunciation and word origin.
