Horrid vs Evil - What's the difference?
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(archaic) bristling, rough, rugged
causing horror or dread
offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
* Shakespeare
Unpleasant. (rfex)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 18
(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3
* , chapter=16
, title= Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
* (Shakespeare)
* Addison
As adjectives the difference between horrid and evil
is that horrid is bristling, rough, rugged while evil is intending to harm; malevolent.As a noun evil is
moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.horrid
English
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
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 * terrificReferences
* *evil
English
Adjective
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.
- He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- Global variables are evil ; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
* nefarious * malicious * malevolent * See alsoAntonyms
* goodDerived terms
* evil eye * evil laugh * evil laughter * evilly * evil-minded * Evil One * evil twin * evilnessNoun
(wikipedia evil)- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
- The evil that men do lives after them.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .