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

Adjective

(en adjective)

Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

* There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash.

* My journey to work this morning was horrendous !

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}