horrid

英 ['hɒrɪd]美 ['hɔrɪd]
  • adj. 可怕的；恐怖的；极讨厌的
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助记提示

1. horr- + -id.
2. => frightful, horrible, causing horror.
3. => unpleasant, offensive.

中文词源

horrid 讨厌的，厌恶的

来自拉丁语horrere,恐惧，颤抖，词源同horror.引申词义讨厌的，不友好的。

英文词源

horrid (adj.)
early 15c., "hairy, shaggy, bristling," from Latin horridus "bristly, prickly, rough, horrid, frightful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Meaning "horrible, causing horror" is from c. 1600. Sense weakened 17c. to "unpleasant, offensive."
[W]hile both [horrible and horrid] are much used in the trivial sense of disagreeable, horrible is still quite common in the graver sense inspiring horror, which horrid tends to lose .... [Fowler]
Related: Horridly.

双语例句

1. I love both my parents, but they're horrid to each other.
我爱我的父母，但他们彼此之间极为不和。
来自柯林斯例句
2. What a horrid smell!
怎么这么臭！
来自柯林斯例句
3. I must have been a horrid little girl.
我一定是个人见人烦的小女孩。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The winter was horrid.
冬天天气极糟。
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5. Don't be so horrid to your brother.
别对你弟弟那么凶。
来自《权威词典》