单词 | horrid |
释义 | horridadj.adv. 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. 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). < adj.adv.1590 |
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