horrid
adjective/ˈhɒrɪd/
/ˈhɔːrɪd/
(old-fashioned or informal, especially British English)- very unpleasant or unkind synonym horrible
- a horrid child
- a horrid smell
- Don't be so horrid to your brother.
- The meat tasted horrid.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘rough, bristling’): from Latin horridus, from horrere ‘tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end’.Definitions on the go
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