horrid

Meaning

Adjective

• Bristling, rough, rugged.
• Causing horror or dread.
• Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

Related

Similar words

• abominable
• alarming
• appalling
• awful
• dire
• dreadful
• frightful
• harrowing
• hideous
• horrible
• revolting
• shocking
• terrific

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin horridus ("rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude"), from horrere. See horrent, horror, ordure.