horrid
/ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd."
- "Yea there, where very Desolation dwells, / By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, / She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, / Be it not done in pride, or in presumption."
- "Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn, / Few paths of human feet, or tracks of beasts, were worn."
- "Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth."
- "Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, / that we the horrider may seem to those / Which chance to find us;"
- "Set out the altar! I myself will be / The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites / You shake to think on."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥s-éh₁-(ye)-ti Proto-Italic *horzēō Latin horreō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin horridusbor. English horrid Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵʰers-, horridus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɔ.ɹɪd/
- British English: /ˈhɒ.ɹɪd/