Horrid

Definition: Horrid

Horrid

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "horrid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Horrid \Hor"rid\, adjective. [Latin expression horridus. See Horror, and compare to Ordure.]. (references)

Synonyms: Horrid

Fear

Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian.

Inexpedience

Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.

Pain

Odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.

Ugliness

Frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody, grody to the max; horrid, horrible; shocking; (painful).

Vulgarity

Particular; affected; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking; (painful).

Crosswords: Horrid

Just be your natural horrid self (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

They'll stick me alongside the Piltdown forgeries as a horrid warning (Quatermass and the Pit; writing credit: Nigel Kneale)

His horrid insanity had reached its peak (Vincent; writing credit: Tim Burton)

Her Horrid Honeymoon (1914)

Murder Most Horrid (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Danger, Disaster and Horrid Deeds (reference)

• Horrid Henry (reference)

• Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Horrid Henry Strikes It Rich (reference)

• Horrid Henry's Head Lice (Laf) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Faces of Horrid (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Oh Marshall, she said, am I horrid or am I only honest. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Couldn't we call ourselves Daughters of something besides the American REVOLUTION? It's such a horrid word". Credit: Library of Congress.

Horrid massacre in Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In the fearful reverie into which its presence casts the soul, the awful apparition of the scaffold confounds itself with its horrid work

It had a horrid rough feel

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "horrid": horrid-looking, horrid-things.

Albanian

shumë i pakëndshëm (obnoxious), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i lemerishëm (dreadful, grisly, horrible, terrible), i frikshëm (bloodcurdling, dreadful, eerie, eery, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrible, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, flagrant, gross, hideous, horrible, monstrous, outrageous, shocking, terrible, ugly), ‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous), ‏بشع (atrocious, grasping, grievous, gruesome, hideous, homely, shapeless, ugly, ungainly, unhandsome, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

可怕 (Awful, Dire, Fearful, Fearsome, frightful, Grewsome, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrific, macaber, macabre, redoubtable, scary, terrible). (various references)

Czech

hrùzný (apocalyptic, awesome, creepy, ghastly, harrowing, horrific, horrifying, scary), protivný (aggravating, beastly, bitchy, disagreeable, hateful, irksome, lousy, molestful, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, odious), ohavný (abominable, despicable, detestable, execrable, ghastly, heinous, hideous, horrendous, odious, ugly, unspeakable, vile, villainous), ošklivý (bad, dirty, foul, grisly, hideous, mean, nasty, ugly, unsightly), dìsný (awful, dreadful, fearsome, great, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-rising, hairy, lurid, macabre, unearthly, unholy). (various references)

Farsi 

مهیب (Grisly, Gruesome, Hideous, Horrendous, Horrible, Macabre, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), نفرت انگیز (Detestable, Execrable, Gruesome, Invidious, Loathsome, Obnoxious, Odious), ترسناک (Dire, Ghastly, Grim, Hideous, Lurid, Macabre, Nightmarish, Redoubtable, Terrible, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), سهمناک (Redoubtable, Terrible), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome). (various references)

Finnish

hirvittävä (grievous, hideous, horrible). (various references)

French

hideux (horrible), vilain, méchant, affreux (horrible), épouvantable (horrible, horrific). (various references)

German

greulich (bloody, outrageous), grauenvoll. (various references)

Greek 

φρικαλέοσ (ghastly, grisly), απαίσιοσ (abominable, dreadful, execrable, flagrant, ghastly, ominous, sinister, stinking). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעורר בחיל�" (noisome), מ�'עיל (disgusting, nasty, nauseous, repulsive, revolting, slimy). (various references)

Hungarian

szörnyű (appalling, dire, dreadful, egregious, fearsome, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrible, morbid, nefandous, terrible, terrific). (various references)

Indonesian

mengerikan (appall, bloodcurdling, excruciating, grisly, gruesome, harrowing, horrible, macabre). (various references)

Italian

orrido (dreadful, fearful), orrendo (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, nasty, revolting, terrible), odioso (accursed, cursed, detestable, hated, hateful, heinous, hideous, invidious, obnoxious, odious, unpleasant). (various references)

Manx

graynoil (abhorrent, horrible, loathsome, repellent, repulsive), feohdoil (abhorrent, disgusting, hateful, invidious, loathsome). (various references)

Norwegian

vemmelig (abhorrent), redselsfull. (various references)

Pig Latin

orridhay.(various references)

Portuguese

horr�vel (grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrific), h�rrido, terr�vel (grisly, gruesome, hideous), repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, carrion, disgusting, forbidding, grievous, gruesome, hideous, horrible, loathful, loathsome, nauseous, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), desagrad�vel (harsh), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian

spinos (briery, delicate, difficult, hard, spiky, spiny, thorny, ticklish, toilsome), oribil (abominable, detestable, gruesome, hideous, hideously, horrible, horribly, horrific, monstrous), nesuferit (beastly, pestilent, unbearable), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), antipatic (antipathetic, antipathetical, ill natured, repugnant, unlikable), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dread, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrible, howling, terrible, terrific, tremendous, unearthly). (various references)

Russian 

ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy), противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, horrible, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, poisonous, unlovely). (various references)

Scottish

duaidh (a horrid scene). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strašan (almighty, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, horrible, howling, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific), rutav (shaggy). (various references)

Spanish

horroroso (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrifying, nasty, wicked), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), horrendo (dire, fearful, frightful, harrowing, horrendous, horrific), hórrido, terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dread, dreadful, eerie, evil, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, jolly, lousy, lurid, outrageous, splitting, terrible, terror, unholy, wicked), inaguantable (impossible, insufferable, unbearable), de lo más antipático. (various references)

Swedish

otäck (beastly, filthy, hidecous, hideous, nasty, ugly, unearthly, wicked, wickedness), hemsk (abysmal, agonizing, alarmed, atrocious, awful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, dismal, dismayed, dreadful, dreary, dumbfounded, eerie, eery, fell, frantic, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrific, lurid, put out of countenance, terrible, terrific, uncanny, weird, wicked), gräslig (abysmal, atrocious, awful, beastly, dire, dreadful, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, rible, terrible, ugly, unsightly, vile). (various references)

Thai

น่ากลัว (awful, eerie, fearsome, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrific). (various references)

Turkish

korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukrainian

страшний (awful, blood-curdling, dread, frantic, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, horrible, terrible), кошлатий (bushy, pilose, pilous, rough, shaggy), відразливий (abhorrent, forbidding, loathsome, nauseous, odious), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kinh khiếp (fearful), kinh khủng (desperate, direful, formidable, horrendous, horrible, horrific, tremendous). (various references)

horrere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "horrid": horridly, horridness, horridnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Horrid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: harid, harrid, Harrild, Harroid, Hjorrow, hoorie, hored, Horia, horid, Horie, Horik, horiz, horra, Horrey, Horrida, horrids, Horris, Horritt, Horti, Houria, hurrite, Hursid, orid, orrid, sorrid, tharrid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dorr.

-3 letters: dor, hid, hod, rho, rid, rod.

-4 letters: do, hi, ho, id, od, oh, or.

+2 letters: horridly.

+3 letters: diarrhoea, drouthier, erythroid, horrified, shorebird, trihedron.

+4 letters: diarrhoeas, dishonorer, droughtier, harborside, hemorrhoid, horridness, orchardist, pyrethroid, radiograph, roughdried, roughdries, roughrider, shorebirds, trihedrons, trihydroxy.

+5 letters: arthrodesis, borohydride, cardiograph, charbroiled, cryptorchid, diarthroses, diarthrosis, dishonorers, foolhardier, hardworking, harpsichord, hemorrhoids, horseradish, hydrometric, hydrotropic, ironhearted, orchardists, parathyroid, pyrethroids, radiographs, radiography, rehydration, rhabdovirus, roughdrying, roughriders, shorthaired, thermoduric.