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Horrid is a related term of grim.


As an adjective horrid

is (archaic) bristling, rough, rugged.

As a proper noun grim is

, probably derived from old english grimm' or old norse '''grimr''' or ' grimmr .

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

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    grim

    English

    Adjective

    (grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
    • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
    • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
    • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
    • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !