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单词 horrid
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horridadj.adv.

Brit. /ˈhɒrɪd/, U.S. /ˈhɔrəd/
Forms: Also 1600s horred, horride.
Etymology: < Latin horridus bristling, rough, shaggy; rude, savage, unpolished; terrible, frightful, < horrēre : see horre v. Compare Italian orrido.
A. adj.
1. Bristling, shaggy, rough. (Chiefly poetic.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough
unsmeetheOE
sharpc893
rowOE
reofOE
roughOE
unplaina1393
harsha1400
scrofc1400
stourc1400
ruggyc1405
asperous1547
harshy1582
shagged1589
horrid1590
unsmooth1598
gross1606
asperate1623
brute1627
scabbed1630
sleazy1644
rasping1656
scaber1657
asper1681
shaggy1693
gruff1697
grating1766
hackly1794
ruvid1837
scrubby1856
unkind1866
raspy1882
ruckly1923
sandpapery1957
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G2v His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xiv. 164 A rugged attire, hirsute head, horrid beard.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 103 There is also on the side of this horrid Alp, a very romantic seate.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 479 Horrid with Fern, and intricate with Thorn.
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 418 Ye grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid thorn!
1739 T. Gray Let. 19 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 134 They [sc. the Apennines] are not so horrid as the Alps, though pretty near as high.
1790 Voy. IV. i. 1255 Nothing in nature can make a more horrid appearance than the rugged mountains that form Table Bay.
1845 G. S. Faber Eight Diss. II. App. iii. 179 The Roman Capitol was horrid with sylvan thickets.
figurative.a1730 A. Blackwall Sacred Classics (1731) II. ii. i. 132 This..makes the style look rough and horrid.
2. Causing horror or aversion; revolting to sight, hearing, or contemplation; terrible, dreadful, frightful; abominable, detestable.In earlier use nearly synonymous with horrible; in modern use somewhat less strong, and tending to pass into the weakened colloquial sense (3).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > [adjective]
horrible1303
horrid1602
nameless1611
shockinga1704
shocking1703
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective]
atelOE
grislya1150
atelichc1175
grisfula1300
ugly13..
hideous1303
horrible1303
ghastlyc1305
stout1338
horrendc1420
ugsomec1425
grisilc1440
execrable1490
uggle1499
horrious?1520
uglisome1530
ugglesome1561
gruesome1570
grisy1590
gashfulc1600
horrid1602
ghast1622
gashly1627
horrific1653
horrendous1661
horrorous1756
horrifying1791
horrorish1847
grauly1848
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. Cv We might descry a horred spectacle.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 195 I wil meditate the while vpon some horrid message for a Challenge. View more context for this quotation
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Horride, terrible: fearefull to looke on.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. i. 2 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Within these twelve yeers ther have the strangest revolutions, and horridst things happen'd.
1660 J. Dryden Astræa Redux 5 An horrid Stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence Wee the Tempest fear.
1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 53 The horrid murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey is not yet discovered.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 69 They set up the horridest Yell.
1751 Act 25 Geo. II c. 37 (title) An Act for better preventing the horrid Crime of Murder.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 77 The fierce horrid look of the tiger.
1854 T. De Quincey On Murder (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 108 Stupefied with the horrid narcotic which he had drunk.
3. colloquial in weakened sense. Offensive, disagreeable, detested; very bad or objectionable.Noted in N.E.D. as especially frequent as a feminine term of strong aversion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective]
loatha700
eileOE
andsetec1000
wlatfulc1230
aloathedc1275
wlatsomea1300
unhonest13..
wlata1325
hideousc1330
abominable1340
hatefula1382
hatesomea1382
abominablec1384
odiousa1387
fulsomec1390
accursedc1400
hatousc1400
rankc1400
hateablec1425
odiblec1425
ugsomec1425
wretchedc1430
loathsomec1440
loathfula1450
noisomea1450
abhominal1477
detestable1477
loathy1481
loathing?a1513
oppugnanta1513
irksome1513
hateworthy1548
abhorful1565
ugged1570
detestine1575
ulcerous1577
opposite1578
scandalous1592
offensive1594
obscene1597
ulcered1602
dirtya1616
abhorrent1628
toady1628
envious1630
repugnant1633
nauseating1645
nauseous1646
obnoxious1646
detestful1654
reluctant1663
horrid1666
abnoxious1682
devilish1692
invidious1710
repellent1776
repellant1780
sickening1789
toadish1822
carrion1826
ugging1839
cussed1853
repugnant1879
jerky1944
vomitous1952
barfy1957
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 281 Making horrid complaints that..treated them ill.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 23 Oct. (1976) IX. 336 My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels..which is a horrid shame.
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii, in Dramatic Wks. (1840) 110/2 O horrid! marriage!.. I nauseate it of all things.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 362 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.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. i. 92 Neither can any one give the Names of sad Stuff, horrid Nonsense, &c. to a Book, without calling the Author a Blockhead. View more context for this quotation
1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iv. vi. 212 He said he supposed we were only talking some scandal, and so we had better go home, and employ ourselves in working for the poor! only think how horrid!
1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. vi. 47 I should not wear those horrid, horrid dresses.
1864 Princess Alice Jrnl. 26 Nov. in Biogr. Sketch & Lett. (1884) 78 The horrid weather has kept me in these three days.
1883 Harper's Mag. May 866/1 She's so horrid, you know.
B. adv.
‘Horridly’, ‘abominably’, very objectionably. colloquial or nonstandard.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad
sorea1300
grievously1340
terrible1490
beastly?1518
shrewdlyc1533
arrantly?1548
murrainly?1548
abominablea1550
pestilence1567
pestilently1567
cursedly1570
pestiferously1570
murrain1575
plaguey1584
plaguilya1586
grievous1598
scandalously1602
horridly1603
terribly1604
monstrously1611
hellish1614
dreadfullya1616
horrid1615
pestilenta1616
infernally1638
preposterously1661
woeful1684
confoundedly1694
confounded1709
glaringly1709
cursed1719
flagrantly1756
weary1790
disgustingly1804
filthy1827
blamed1833
peskily1833
pesky1833
blame1843
blasted1854
wickedly1858
blatantly1878
shamelessly1885
disgracefully1893
ruddy1913
bastarda1935
pissing1951
sodding1954
pissingly1971
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 410 All things become horred wanne and pale.
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 214 His Father in Law..lives at a horrid profuse rate.
1753 Scots Mag. 15 37/2 Went to bed horrid soon.
1867 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 25 I'm horrid sorry there was such a gap in my letters then.
a1899 (Cockney) It's 'orrid 'ot.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 135 Fags bully each other horrid.
1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 80 The New Armies are horrid quick on the trigger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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