horrid

«horrid» in Mova's school dictionary: Very unpleasant or nasty: «a horrid smell» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (horrid, more horrid or horrider, most horrid or horridest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very unpleasant or nasty: «a horrid smell». tree →

2) (of people) Unkind or mean: «Don't be horrid to your sister.» tree →

3) (old) Causing horror; frightening. tree →

sense in the lessons

A common word in British children's books and in speech among children: «Horrid Henry» is a famous naughty character. In Alice and The Wind in the Willows, characters call things or people horrid when they are upset. In stories it tells you a character is mean or something is nasty.

examples

• That medicine tastes horrid. tree →
• Don't be horrid to the new girl. tree →
• It was a horrid, rainy day. tree →
• «You horrid creature!» cried Alice. tree →
• The weasels were horrid to Toad. tree →
• I had a horrid dream last night. tree →
• And they called him a horrid dwarf! tree →

note

Informal and a bit childish or old-fashioned in UK speech. Similar: nasty, horrible, awful, mean. Horrid and horrible mean nearly the same.

In the corpora

• Horrid little carts—common carts—canary-coloured carts!»
• A horrid, nasty, crawly Toad!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «horrid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.