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)

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Down towns , passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}