horrid的意思

horrid

英式音标['hɔrɪd]
美式英标['hɒrɪd]

基本解释

adj. 可怕的；恐怖的；极讨厌的

horrid 讨厌的，厌恶的

来自拉丁语horrere,恐惧，颤抖，词源同horror.引申词义讨厌的，不友好的。

horrid (adj.): early 15c., "hairy, shaggy, bristling," from Latin horridus "bristly, prickly, rough, horrid, frightful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Meaning "horrible, causing horror" is from c. 1600. Sense weakened 17c. to "unpleasant, offensive."
[W]hile both [horrible and horrid] are much used in the trivial sense of disagreeable, horrible is still quite common in the graver sense inspiring horror, which horrid tends to lose .... [Fowler]
Related: Horridly.

1. I love both my parents, but they're horrid to each other.: 我爱我的父母，但他们彼此之间极为不和。