Definitions
Very unpleasant, frightening, or shocking.
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Used in a sentence
“His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.”
“Yea there, where very Desolation dwells, / By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, / She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, / Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.”
Comus“Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn, / Few paths of human feet, or tracks of beasts, were worn.”
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