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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#m1)

2) (of people) Unkind or mean: «Don't be horrid to your sister.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#m2)

3) (old) Causing horror; frightening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x1)
- Don't be horrid to the new girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x2)
- It was a horrid, rainy day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x3)
- «You horrid creature!» cried Alice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x4)
- The weasels were horrid to Toad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x5)
- I had a horrid dream last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x6)
- And they called him a horrid dwarf! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/#x7)

### 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!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/26/)
- [A horrid, nasty, crawly Toad!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «horrid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horrid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.