'Horrid' definitions:
Definition of 'horrid'
From: WordNet
adjective
Exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
adjective
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous]
Definition of 'Horrid'
From: GCIDE
- Horrid \Hor"rid\, a. [L. horridus. See Horror, and cf. Ordure.]
- 1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. [1913 Webster]
- Not in the legions Of horrid hell. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The horrid things they say. --Pope.
- Syn: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'horrid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- astounding,
- atrocious,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- baneful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- contemptible,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- direful,
- disgusting,
- dread,
- dreaded,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fell,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- forbidding,
- formidable,
- foul,
- frightful,
- fulsome,
- ghastly,
- ghoulish,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gross,
- gruesome,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- hideous,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- infamous,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- monstrous,
- morbid,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- rank,
- redoubtable,
- regrettable,
- repellent,
- repelling,
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- schrecklich,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrifying,
- too bad,
- tragic,
- tremendous,
- unclean,
- unspeakable,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched