HORRID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horrid mean? 

• HORRID (adjective)
  The adjective HORRID has 2 senses:

1. exceedingly bad

2. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

  Familiarity information: HORRID used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORRID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exceedingly bad

Context example:

when she was bad she was horrid

Similar:

bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)

Derivation:

horridness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

Synonyms:

hideous; horrid; horrific; outrageous

Context example:

horrific conditions in the mining industry

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

Derivation:

horridness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)

 Context examples 

Now don't laugh at his horrid name.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I really am quite ashamed of my idleness; but in this horrid place one can find time for nothing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Well, we had a horrid business afterwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Don't say 'make good,'" she cried, sweetly petulant. "It's slang, and it's horrid."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But I can assure you, she added, that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"How horrid all this is!" said he.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He sat really lost in thought for the first few minutes; and when rousing himself, it was only to say, Of all horrid things, leave-taking is the worst.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)