Definition of horrid in English:

horrid

adjective ˈhɒrɪdˈhɔrəd

1Causing horror.
恐怖的，可怕的
a horrid nightmare
可怕的梦魇。
Example sentencesExamples
- I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about.
- ‘That was a horrid, horrid time,’ said Dennis, who has three daughters, one son, a step-daughter and five grandchildren.
- Why couldn't this be a dream, a horrid nightmare?
- Tielle nodded, and they left the suddenly horrid room with its gruesome corpse.
- Whilst he was writing the book in 1782 Beckford wrote in a letter, ‘I am at work on a story so horrid that I tremble whilst relating it, and have not a nerve in my frame but vibrates’.
- What this ignores is the horrid possibility that the larger force will bring its full might to bear on the issue.
- Why couldn't it have all been a horrid nightmare?
- She wished that she could wake up from this horrid nightmare, but no matter how many times she pinched herself, it hurt every time.
- The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs.
- She couldn't help but think of thousands of horrid possibilities.
- Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense.
- It's just sad and grim, a horrid reflection on our species' tendency to eschew compromise and go for the greed.
- The scenarios I thought up were more horrid and gruesome than the whispers that still continued, growing in volume until I was sure I would go mad.
- His fingers moved and curled, showing his nervousness about the subject as he began to explain the horrid nightmare that tortured him so.
- The horrid images of her nightmare have disappeared for the moment.
- As one walks there at night when peaceful Balinese music is suddenly transformed into bomb-like thunder, one just can't stop a horrid chill creeping over every part of the body.
- Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom.
- The horrid images of mistreatment by military police being broadcast around the globe have already proved damaging to their interests overseas.
- For the past few months, she has been living a horrid nightmare after the sudden death of her ten-year-old daughter, Nicole Pierre.
- That was almost a horrid idea, but something about it illuminated many other possibilities.
Synonyms
horrifying, horrible, horrific, horrendous, dreadful, frightful, fearful, awful, terrible, shocking, appalling, hideous, grim, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, gruesome, heinous, vile, nightmarish, macabre, unspeakable, hair-raising, spine-chilling
1. 1.1informal Very unpleasant.
  the teachers at school were horrid
  学校里的老师极其令人讨厌。
  a horrid brown colour
  一种令人讨厌的棕色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Never be tempted to use hairspray: it looks naff, smells horrid and your date will get an unpleasant surprise if they touch your hair.
  He treated the poor man terribly, and Cedric felt horrid about it.
  I feel grim and horrid, but it's a cold and I will recover.
  While the quantity was minimal, it was good quality snow, properly frozen rather than the nasty slushy kind that feels so horrid on the skin.
  It was all he could do to keep from grimacing in disgust at the sight of those horrid yellow-brown teeth.
  He might treat with disdain ‘the horrid, sweetish white Zinfandel’, but strangely enough, there are consumers who feel the same way about his favoured vintages.
  They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one.
  ‘Behind the bar, it was so smelly and horrid,’ she recalls, nose wrinkling.
  His experimental jazz recordings were simply horrid, though I recognize that I think that only because I tend to regard the entire genre as horrid.
  When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind.
  In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back.
  Also, my apologies for the atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes, they're horrid!
  Yes, much of the coffee in America is horrid and/or disgusting, but at least the possibility exists of finding decent coffee in America.
  Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears.
  I was wearing the standard graduation robe in a horrid red colour.
  Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance!
  After a horrid, torrid week in which all sorts of colourful allegations have been thrown at the Government, none of it appears to have stuck.
  Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken.
  She was pointing to a grotesque china clock and a horrid vase.
  It would've been terribly immature, and she would've felt horrid about it later, however it would sure make her feel better at the moment.
  Synonyms
  nasty, horrible, disagreeable, unpleasant, awful, dreadful, terrible, appalling, horrendous, disgusting, foul, revolting, repulsive, repellent, ghastly
2archaic Rough; bristling.
〈诗/文〉崎岖不平的；毛发直立的
a horrid beard
Example sentencesExamples
- Our caves are not like her castle, and when we pluck fruit from the trees we have nursed so carefully in crevices, away from the wind, we have to climb their rough and horrid trunks.

Derivatives

horridly

adverb

‘What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low and horridly cruel works of nature,’ Darwin wrote to a friend in 1856.
Example sentencesExamples
- He sends away samples and discovers that water is horridly polluted.
- Unfortunately, a fairly large majority of us are from Irish heritage and therefore are horridly pale and only burn or freckle (me being one of them).
- Puccini took this even further and his heroes and heroines were little seamstresses dying of consumption, geisha girls being dumped by horridly racist American naval officers, and even cowboys and cowgirls!
- Woven into the main narrative are the stories of five other people who have also suffered horridly painful losses, and who, once the source or instrument of their passion is gone, succumb to bitter melancholy.

horridness

noun

There's even another ringing endorsement of Sweden, and another disquisition on the joys of fairness, equity, and the horridness of our ‘stagnant social mobility’.
Example sentencesExamples
- Imagine Principal Skinner's mother in The Simpsons and multiply by ten; a hilarious portrait of horridness.
- We went to a couple more of these seedy places savouring the sour gritty horridness of it all and then eventually went home.
- Who are you to think that because you lack character you can hurt others with your horridness?
- Language is not equipped to communicate its horridness.

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense 'rough, bristling'): from Latin horridus, from horrere 'tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end'.

Rhymes

florid, forehead, torrid

Definition of horrid in US English:

horrid

adjectiveˈhôrədˈhɔrəd

1Causing horror.
恐怖的，可怕的
a horrid nightmare
可怕的梦魇。
Example sentencesExamples
- For the past few months, she has been living a horrid nightmare after the sudden death of her ten-year-old daughter, Nicole Pierre.
- ‘That was a horrid, horrid time,’ said Dennis, who has three daughters, one son, a step-daughter and five grandchildren.
- The horrid images of her nightmare have disappeared for the moment.
- She couldn't help but think of thousands of horrid possibilities.
- That was almost a horrid idea, but something about it illuminated many other possibilities.
- The horrid images of mistreatment by military police being broadcast around the globe have already proved damaging to their interests overseas.
- His fingers moved and curled, showing his nervousness about the subject as he began to explain the horrid nightmare that tortured him so.
- The scenarios I thought up were more horrid and gruesome than the whispers that still continued, growing in volume until I was sure I would go mad.
- I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about.
- As one walks there at night when peaceful Balinese music is suddenly transformed into bomb-like thunder, one just can't stop a horrid chill creeping over every part of the body.
- The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs.
- Why couldn't this be a dream, a horrid nightmare?
- Tielle nodded, and they left the suddenly horrid room with its gruesome corpse.
- What this ignores is the horrid possibility that the larger force will bring its full might to bear on the issue.
- She wished that she could wake up from this horrid nightmare, but no matter how many times she pinched herself, it hurt every time.
- Whilst he was writing the book in 1782 Beckford wrote in a letter, ‘I am at work on a story so horrid that I tremble whilst relating it, and have not a nerve in my frame but vibrates’.
- Why couldn't it have all been a horrid nightmare?
- It's just sad and grim, a horrid reflection on our species' tendency to eschew compromise and go for the greed.
- Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense.
- Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom.
Synonyms
horrifying, horrible, horrific, horrendous, dreadful, frightful, fearful, awful, terrible, shocking, appalling, hideous, grim, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, gruesome, heinous, vile, nightmarish, macabre, unspeakable, hair-raising, spine-chilling
1. 1.1informal Very unpleasant or disagreeable.
  〈非正式〉令人厌恶的，极不合意的
  the teachers at school were horrid
  学校里的老师极其令人讨厌。
  a horrid brown color
  一种令人讨厌的棕色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  While the quantity was minimal, it was good quality snow, properly frozen rather than the nasty slushy kind that feels so horrid on the skin.
  Also, my apologies for the atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes, they're horrid!
  I feel grim and horrid, but it's a cold and I will recover.
  He treated the poor man terribly, and Cedric felt horrid about it.
  It was all he could do to keep from grimacing in disgust at the sight of those horrid yellow-brown teeth.
  She was pointing to a grotesque china clock and a horrid vase.
  They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one.
  ‘Behind the bar, it was so smelly and horrid,’ she recalls, nose wrinkling.
  Yes, much of the coffee in America is horrid and/or disgusting, but at least the possibility exists of finding decent coffee in America.
  Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears.
  When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind.
  I was wearing the standard graduation robe in a horrid red colour.
  His experimental jazz recordings were simply horrid, though I recognize that I think that only because I tend to regard the entire genre as horrid.
  In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back.
  Never be tempted to use hairspray: it looks naff, smells horrid and your date will get an unpleasant surprise if they touch your hair.
  It would've been terribly immature, and she would've felt horrid about it later, however it would sure make her feel better at the moment.
  He might treat with disdain ‘the horrid, sweetish white Zinfandel’, but strangely enough, there are consumers who feel the same way about his favoured vintages.
  Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance!
  After a horrid, torrid week in which all sorts of colourful allegations have been thrown at the Government, none of it appears to have stuck.
  Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken.
  Synonyms
  nasty, horrible, disagreeable, unpleasant, awful, dreadful, terrible, appalling, horrendous, disgusting, foul, revolting, repulsive, repellent, ghastly
2archaic Rough; bristling.
〈诗/文〉崎岖不平的；毛发直立的
Example sentencesExamples
- Our caves are not like her castle, and when we pluck fruit from the trees we have nursed so carefully in crevices, away from the wind, we have to climb their rough and horrid trunks.

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense ‘rough, bristling’): from Latin horridus, from horrere ‘tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end’.

词汇	horrid
释义	Definition of horrid in English: horrid adjective ˈhɒrɪdˈhɔrəd 1Causing horror. 恐怖的，可怕的 a horrid nightmare 可怕的梦魇。 Example sentencesExamples I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about. ‘That was a horrid, horrid time,’ said Dennis, who has three daughters, one son, a step-daughter and five grandchildren. Why couldn't this be a dream, a horrid nightmare? Tielle nodded, and they left the suddenly horrid room with its gruesome corpse. Whilst he was writing the book in 1782 Beckford wrote in a letter, ‘I am at work on a story so horrid that I tremble whilst relating it, and have not a nerve in my frame but vibrates’. What this ignores is the horrid possibility that the larger force will bring its full might to bear on the issue. Why couldn't it have all been a horrid nightmare? She wished that she could wake up from this horrid nightmare, but no matter how many times she pinched herself, it hurt every time. The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs. She couldn't help but think of thousands of horrid possibilities. Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense. It's just sad and grim, a horrid reflection on our species' tendency to eschew compromise and go for the greed. The scenarios I thought up were more horrid and gruesome than the whispers that still continued, growing in volume until I was sure I would go mad. His fingers moved and curled, showing his nervousness about the subject as he began to explain the horrid nightmare that tortured him so. The horrid images of her nightmare have disappeared for the moment. As one walks there at night when peaceful Balinese music is suddenly transformed into bomb-like thunder, one just can't stop a horrid chill creeping over every part of the body. Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom. The horrid images of mistreatment by military police being broadcast around the globe have already proved damaging to their interests overseas. For the past few months, she has been living a horrid nightmare after the sudden death of her ten-year-old daughter, Nicole Pierre. That was almost a horrid idea, but something about it illuminated many other possibilities. Synonyms horrifying, horrible, horrific, horrendous, dreadful, frightful, fearful, awful, terrible, shocking, appalling, hideous, grim, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, gruesome, heinous, vile, nightmarish, macabre, unspeakable, hair-raising, spine-chilling 1.1informal Very unpleasant. the teachers at school were horrid 学校里的老师极其令人讨厌。 a horrid brown colour 一种令人讨厌的棕色。 Example sentencesExamples Never be tempted to use hairspray: it looks naff, smells horrid and your date will get an unpleasant surprise if they touch your hair. He treated the poor man terribly, and Cedric felt horrid about it. I feel grim and horrid, but it's a cold and I will recover. While the quantity was minimal, it was good quality snow, properly frozen rather than the nasty slushy kind that feels so horrid on the skin. It was all he could do to keep from grimacing in disgust at the sight of those horrid yellow-brown teeth. He might treat with disdain ‘the horrid, sweetish white Zinfandel’, but strangely enough, there are consumers who feel the same way about his favoured vintages. They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one. ‘Behind the bar, it was so smelly and horrid,’ she recalls, nose wrinkling. His experimental jazz recordings were simply horrid, though I recognize that I think that only because I tend to regard the entire genre as horrid. When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind. In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back. Also, my apologies for the atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes, they're horrid! Yes, much of the coffee in America is horrid and/or disgusting, but at least the possibility exists of finding decent coffee in America. Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears. I was wearing the standard graduation robe in a horrid red colour. Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance! After a horrid, torrid week in which all sorts of colourful allegations have been thrown at the Government, none of it appears to have stuck. Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken. She was pointing to a grotesque china clock and a horrid vase. It would've been terribly immature, and she would've felt horrid about it later, however it would sure make her feel better at the moment. Synonyms nasty, horrible, disagreeable, unpleasant, awful, dreadful, terrible, appalling, horrendous, disgusting, foul, revolting, repulsive, repellent, ghastly 2archaic Rough; bristling. 〈诗/文〉崎岖不平的；毛发直立的 a horrid beard Example sentencesExamples Our caves are not like her castle, and when we pluck fruit from the trees we have nursed so carefully in crevices, away from the wind, we have to climb their rough and horrid trunks. Derivatives horridly adverb ‘What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low and horridly cruel works of nature,’ Darwin wrote to a friend in 1856. Example sentencesExamples He sends away samples and discovers that water is horridly polluted. Unfortunately, a fairly large majority of us are from Irish heritage and therefore are horridly pale and only burn or freckle (me being one of them). Puccini took this even further and his heroes and heroines were little seamstresses dying of consumption, geisha girls being dumped by horridly racist American naval officers, and even cowboys and cowgirls! Woven into the main narrative are the stories of five other people who have also suffered horridly painful losses, and who, once the source or instrument of their passion is gone, succumb to bitter melancholy. horridness noun There's even another ringing endorsement of Sweden, and another disquisition on the joys of fairness, equity, and the horridness of our ‘stagnant social mobility’. Example sentencesExamples Imagine Principal Skinner's mother in The Simpsons and multiply by ten; a hilarious portrait of horridness. We went to a couple more of these seedy places savouring the sour gritty horridness of it all and then eventually went home. Who are you to think that because you lack character you can hurt others with your horridness? Language is not equipped to communicate its horridness. Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'rough, bristling'): from Latin horridus, from horrere 'tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end'. Rhymes florid, forehead, torrid Definition of horrid in US English: horrid adjectiveˈhôrədˈhɔrəd 1Causing horror. 恐怖的，可怕的 a horrid nightmare 可怕的梦魇。 Example sentencesExamples For the past few months, she has been living a horrid nightmare after the sudden death of her ten-year-old daughter, Nicole Pierre. ‘That was a horrid, horrid time,’ said Dennis, who has three daughters, one son, a step-daughter and five grandchildren. The horrid images of her nightmare have disappeared for the moment. She couldn't help but think of thousands of horrid possibilities. That was almost a horrid idea, but something about it illuminated many other possibilities. The horrid images of mistreatment by military police being broadcast around the globe have already proved damaging to their interests overseas. His fingers moved and curled, showing his nervousness about the subject as he began to explain the horrid nightmare that tortured him so. The scenarios I thought up were more horrid and gruesome than the whispers that still continued, growing in volume until I was sure I would go mad. I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about. As one walks there at night when peaceful Balinese music is suddenly transformed into bomb-like thunder, one just can't stop a horrid chill creeping over every part of the body. The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs. Why couldn't this be a dream, a horrid nightmare? Tielle nodded, and they left the suddenly horrid room with its gruesome corpse. What this ignores is the horrid possibility that the larger force will bring its full might to bear on the issue. She wished that she could wake up from this horrid nightmare, but no matter how many times she pinched herself, it hurt every time. Whilst he was writing the book in 1782 Beckford wrote in a letter, ‘I am at work on a story so horrid that I tremble whilst relating it, and have not a nerve in my frame but vibrates’. Why couldn't it have all been a horrid nightmare? It's just sad and grim, a horrid reflection on our species' tendency to eschew compromise and go for the greed. Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense. Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom. Synonyms horrifying, horrible, horrific, horrendous, dreadful, frightful, fearful, awful, terrible, shocking, appalling, hideous, grim, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, gruesome, heinous, vile, nightmarish, macabre, unspeakable, hair-raising, spine-chilling 1.1informal Very unpleasant or disagreeable. 〈非正式〉令人厌恶的，极不合意的 the teachers at school were horrid 学校里的老师极其令人讨厌。 a horrid brown color 一种令人讨厌的棕色。 Example sentencesExamples While the quantity was minimal, it was good quality snow, properly frozen rather than the nasty slushy kind that feels so horrid on the skin. Also, my apologies for the atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes, they're horrid! I feel grim and horrid, but it's a cold and I will recover. He treated the poor man terribly, and Cedric felt horrid about it. It was all he could do to keep from grimacing in disgust at the sight of those horrid yellow-brown teeth. She was pointing to a grotesque china clock and a horrid vase. They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one. ‘Behind the bar, it was so smelly and horrid,’ she recalls, nose wrinkling. Yes, much of the coffee in America is horrid and/or disgusting, but at least the possibility exists of finding decent coffee in America. Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears. When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind. I was wearing the standard graduation robe in a horrid red colour. His experimental jazz recordings were simply horrid, though I recognize that I think that only because I tend to regard the entire genre as horrid. In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back. Never be tempted to use hairspray: it looks naff, smells horrid and your date will get an unpleasant surprise if they touch your hair. It would've been terribly immature, and she would've felt horrid about it later, however it would sure make her feel better at the moment. He might treat with disdain ‘the horrid, sweetish white Zinfandel’, but strangely enough, there are consumers who feel the same way about his favoured vintages. Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance! After a horrid, torrid week in which all sorts of colourful allegations have been thrown at the Government, none of it appears to have stuck. Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken. Synonyms nasty, horrible, disagreeable, unpleasant, awful, dreadful, terrible, appalling, horrendous, disgusting, foul, revolting, repulsive, repellent, ghastly 2archaic Rough; bristling. 〈诗/文〉崎岖不平的；毛发直立的 Example sentencesExamples Our caves are not like her castle, and when we pluck fruit from the trees we have nursed so carefully in crevices, away from the wind, we have to climb their rough and horrid trunks. Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘rough, bristling’): from Latin horridus, from horrere ‘tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end’.
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