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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. exceedingly bad;
- Example: "when she was bad she was horrid"

2. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
- Example: "subjected to outrageous cruelty"
- Example: "a hideous pattern of injustice"
- Example: "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
[syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Horrid \Hor"rid\, a. [L. horridus. See Horror, and cf. Ordure.] 1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. [1913 Webster] Not in the legions Of horrid hell. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The horrid things they say. --Pope. Syn: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

horrid 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]