[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

horrid \hor"rid\, a. l. horridus. see horror, and cf.
   ordure.
   1. rough; rugged; bristling. archaic
      1913 webster

            horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking;
      hence, very offensive.
      1913 webster

            not in the legions
            of horrid hell.                       --shak.
      1913 webster

            the horrid things they say.           --pope.

   syn: frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful;
        terrific; horrible; abominable.
        1913 webster
see also:
horror ordure 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

horrid
     adj 1: exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
     2: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
        "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of
        injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
        syn: hideous, horrific, outrageous
see also:
hideous horrific outrageous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

103 moby thesaurus words for "horrid":
   abhorrent, abominable, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious,
   awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, base, beastly,
   beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deplorable,
   despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disgusting, dread, dreaded,
   dreadful, egregious, enormous, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant,
   forbidding, formidable, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly,
   ghoulish, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful,
   heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying,
   infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lurid, macabre, monstrous,
   morbid, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious,
   offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, redoubtable,
   regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant,
   repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock,
   schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid,
   squalid, terrible, terrific, terrifying, too bad, tragic,
   tremendous, unclean, unspeakable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst,
   worthless, wretched

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