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Horrid vs Beastly - What's the difference?

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Horrid is a related term of beastly.


As adjectives the difference between horrid and beastly

is that horrid is (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged while beastly is (uk) pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast.

As an adverb beastly is

like a beast; brutishly.

horrid

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged
    • 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
  • causing horror or dread
    • 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
  • offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
    • 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

    Usage notes

    * "Horrid" and "horrible" originally had different meanings, but have become almost synonymous over the years.

    Synonyms

    * abominable * alarming * appalling * awful * dire * dreadful * frightful * harrowing * hideous * horrible * revolting * shocking * terrific

    References

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    beastly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (UK) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast.
  • (UK) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
  • (UK, dated) Abominable.
    • beastly weather

    Usage notes

    Most often used pejoratively. is more narrow, though also often used pejoratively.

    Synonyms

    * (like a beast) bestial, animalian

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Like a beast; brutishly.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.8:
    • Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
  • * 1901 , The Literary World - Volume 63 - Page 35:
    • They have insulted me most beastly . Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.