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horrid

adjective
🔊/ˈhɒrɪd/
🔊/ˈhɔːrɪd/
 (old-fashioned or informal, especially British English)
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  1. very unpleasant or unkind非常讨厌的；很不友好的 synonym horrible
    • a horrid child很讨人厌的孩子
    • a horrid smell恶臭
    • Don't be so horrid to your brother.别对你弟弟那么凶。🔊🔊
    • The meat tasted horrid.肉尝起来很刺眼。
    • a rather horrid little man一个相当恐怖的小男人
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘rough, bristling’): from Latin horridus, from horrere ‘tremble, shudder, (of hair) stand on end’.