horrid
Adjective Satellite
- exceedingly bad
- "when she was bad she was horrid"
- grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Adj
- Bristling, rough, rugged.
- Causing horror or dread.
- Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
Adv
- Terribly; horridly; to an extreme extent.
Adjective
- Causing horror, disgust, or repulsion; dreadful.
Examples
- horrid weather
- The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
- The rack of only vowels was a HORRID sight to any Words With Friends player.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Synonyms
hideous, horrific, outrageous, abominable, affreux, alarming, appalling, awful, buggish, butt-clenching, buttock-clenching, dire, dismayful, dreadful, fearful, flaysome, flesh-crawling, formidable, freaky, frightening, frightensome, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, grisly, hair-curling, hair-raising, harrowing, horrible, horrid, horrifying, horripilating, pulse-pounding, revolting, scaring, scary, shocking, skin-crawling, terrible, terrific, terrifying, terrorsome
Scrabble Score: 10
horrid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhorrid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
horrid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary