喜樂美語
  1. 1討厭的;可怕的（語氣較舊式）

    Horrid is an old-fashioned way to say something is very unpleasant, nasty, or — but it is weaker than it sounds. It does not usually mean truly , the way "horrifying" does; it just means "not nice at all." You will hear it more from older British speakers, or in older children's books ("what a horrid smell!", "don't be horrid to your sister"). Younger speakers today are more likely to say "awful" or "nasty."

From the word’s history

From Latin horridus 'rough, bristly, savage', from horrere 'to bristle'.

借自拉丁文 horridus「粗野、豎毛的」，源自 horrere「豎起」。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin "horrere," meaning to shiver or bristle with fear. "-id" simply turns it into an adjective.

同家族的字

  • horrorsame Latin root — the strong feeling of fear or shock
  • horriblesame root, and very close in meaning

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

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horridadj/ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/

  • 1

    archaicBristling, rough, rugged.

    • 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.
  • 2

    Causing horror or dread.

    • Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth.
    • Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, / that we the horrider may seem to those / Which chance to find us;
  • 3

    Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

    • horrid weather
    • The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.

horridadv/ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/

  • 1

    Terribly; horridly; to an extreme extent.

    • “Beg y’ pardon, sir,” said a voice at the tent door; “but Dormer’s ’orrid bad, sir, an’ they’ve taken him orf, sir.”

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