Definizione monolingua

horrid

horrid (comparative horrider or more horrid, superlative horridest or most horrid)

1. (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged

   His haughtie Helmet. horrid all with gold,//Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd. - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I-vii-31

   Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. - John Dryden

   Ye grots and caverns shaggs with horrid thorn! - Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, I-20

2. causing horror or dread

   Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,//that we the horrider may seem to those//Which chance to find us. - Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV-ii

   I myself will be//The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites//You shake to think on. - John Fletcher, Sea Voyage, V-iv

   Not in the legions Of horrid hell. - Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV-iii

   What say you then to fair Sir Percivale,//And of the horrid foulness that he wrought? - Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

3. offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable

   1668 My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame. - Samuel Pepys, Diary, October 23

   About the middle of November we began to work on our Ships bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms. - William Dampier, Voyages, I-362

   Already I your tears survey,//Already hear the horrid things they say. - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, IV-108

Definizione dizionario horrid

brutto

odioso

orribile

orrido

Altri significati:

(archaic) bristling, rough, rugged

offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable