horrid

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.

adj

1. (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
2. Causing horror or dread.
   1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, V-iv, 1866, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2, page 327, Set out the altar! I myself will be / The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites / You shake to think on.
3. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
   horrid weather
   The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
   1668 October 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1858, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Volume 4, 6th Edition, page 39, My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.
   About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms. 1649, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round The World, page 362