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See also: hòrrid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹɪd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹɪd/
Audio (General American): (file)
- (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɒɹɪd
Adjective
[edit]horrid (comparative horrider or more horrid, superlative horridest or most horrid)
- (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 31:
- His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
- Yea there, where very Desolation dwells, / By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, / She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, / Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.
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- Causing horror or dread.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:frightening
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, / that we the horrider may seem to those / Which chance to find us;
- 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, V-iv, 1866, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2, page 327,
- Set out the altar! I myself will be / The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites / You shake to think on.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 132:
- What say ye then to fair Sir Percivale, / And of the horrid foulness that he wrought,
- Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
- horrid weather
- The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
- 1668 October 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1858, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Volume 4, 6th Edition, page 39,
- My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.
- 1649, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round The World[2], page 362:
- About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms.
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Usage notes
[edit]- According to OED, horrid and horrible were originally almost synonymous, but in modern use horrid is somewhat less strong and tending towards the "offensive, disagreeable" sense.[1]
Synonyms
[edit]- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- awful
- dire
- dreadful
- frightful
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrible
- revolting
- shocking
- terrific
Translations
[edit]bristling, rough, rugged
causing horror or dread
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offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
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References
[edit]- “horrid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “horrid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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