horrid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite exceedingly bad
    • when she was bad she was horrid
  2. adjective satellite grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
    outrageous; hideous; horrific.
    • subjected to outrageous cruelty
    • a hideous pattern of injustice
    • horrific conditions in the mining industry

WordNet

Hor"rid adjective
Etymology
L. horridus. See Horror, and cf. Ordure.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913