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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOR'RID, a. [L. horridus. See Horror.]
1. That does or may excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; as a horrid spectacle or sight; horrid sympathy.
2. Rough; rugged. This is the literal and primary sense.
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
3. Shocking; very offensive; a colloquial sense.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
2: 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin horridus, from horr?re Date: 1590 1. archaic rough, bristling 2. innately offensive or repulsive: a. inspiring horror ; shocking b. inspiring disgust or loathing ; nasty <a horrid man> c. horrible 2 <the tenor bell…gives out a horrid discordant noise — Robert Graves> • horridly adverb • horridness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 horrible, revolting. 2 colloq. unpleasant, disagreeable (horrid weather; horrid children). 3 poet. rough, bristling. Derivatives: horridly adv. horridness n. Etymology: L horridus f. horrere bristle, shudder

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Horrid 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe something as horrid, you mean that it is very unpleasant indeed. (INFORMAL) What a horrid smell! = horrible ADJ 2. If you describe someone as horrid, you mean that they behave in a very unpleasant way towards other people. (INFORMAL) I must have been a horrid little girl... = horrible ADJ: oft ADJ to n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Frightful, terrible, terrific, horrible, alarming, portentous, formidable, appalling, dire, horrifying, horrific, harrowing, dreadful, fearful, awful, hideous. 2. (Colloq.) Shocking, offensive, disgusting, revolting, repulsive, odious, disagreeable, unpleasant, vile, abominable.

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