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- DictionaryHor·rid/ˈhôrəd/
adjective
- 1. very unpleasant or disagreeable: "the teachers at school were horrid"
- 2. causing horror: "a horrid nightmare"
The meaning of HORRID is innately offensive or repulsive. How to use horrid in a sentence.
Horrid is popularly used to mean extremely bad—awful, dreadful, or horrible. When it’s used to describe a person, it often means extremely disagreeable or cruel. Much less commonly, it can mean literally causing horror—horrifying or horrific.
horrid | American Dictionary. adjective. us / ˈhɔr·ɪd, ˈhɑr- / Add to word list. very bad or unpleasant: It was a horrid purple color which she detested. (Definition of horrid from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of horrid.
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.
If you describe someone as horrid, you mean that they behave in a very unpleasant way towards other people.
1. disagreeable; unpleasant: a horrid meal. 2. repulsive or frightening. 3. informal unkind. [C16 (in the sense: bristling, shaggy): from Latin horridus prickly, rough, from horrēre to bristle] ˈhorridlyadv. ˈhorridnessn.
Jun 30, 2024 · horrid ( comparative horrider or more horrid, superlative horridest or most horrid) ( archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged . Causing horror or dread . Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable . The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
Definition of horrid adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
very unpleasant or unkind: The other pupils were horrid to him. (Definition of horrid from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
If you describe someone as horrid, you mean that they behave in a very unpleasant way toward other people.
