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horrid

/ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/adjective2 syllables

Horrid means: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror.

Synonyms for horrid20

adjective, as in grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

hideous, horrific, outrageous, offensive

adjective, as in exceedingly bad

bad

also used for horrid

affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, butt-clenching, buttock-clenching, dismayful, abominable, dire, dreadful, frightful, harrowing

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What does horrid mean?2

adjective

1

grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror“subjected to outrageous cruelty”

2

exceedingly bad“when she was bad she was horrid”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Horrid in a sentence

  • The ivy is good because it obscures those horrid cables.Amastan
  • She claims to have horrid visions at night.Teangloir
  • I didn't like it a bit. It was horrid.Hybrid
  • Yanni was laughing the most horrid laugh Skura had ever heard.Amastan

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Forms of horrid

as a adjective

comparative
horrider
superlative
horridest