Meaning of HORRID
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- [adj] exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
- [adj] grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hor"rid\, a. [L. horridus. See {Horror}, and cf.
{Ordure}.]
1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic]
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
--Dryden.
2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking;
hence, very offensive.
Not in the legions Of horrid hell. --Shak.
The horrid things they say. --Pope.
Syn: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful;
terrific; horrible; abominable.
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