Abysmal vs Horrid - What's the difference?
abysmal | horrid |
(now, rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable.
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(figurative, colloquial) Bottomless; extremely bad.
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(archaic) bristling, rough, rugged
causing horror or dread
offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
As adjectives the difference between abysmal and horrid
is that abysmal is (now|rare) pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable while horrid is (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged.abysmal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abysmal" is often applied: ignorance, record, performance, poverty, conditions, quality, perplexity, result, and failure.References
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Adjective
(en-adj)- His haughtie Helmet. horrid all with gold,//Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd. - , The Faerie Queen , I-vii-31
- Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. -
- Ye grots and caverns shagg's with horrid thorn! - , Eloisa to Abelard , I-20
- 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. - , 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? - , Merlin and Vivien
- 1668' My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a '''horrid shame. - , ''Diary , October 23
- About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms. - , Voyages , I-362
- Already I your tears survey,//Already hear the horrid things they say. - , The Rape of the Lock , IV-108