Meaning of horridus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. rough, bristly, shaggy
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
2. rude, rough, uncouth, unpolished, untrimmed
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
3. awful, dreadful, horrible, horrid, frightful, fearful, terrible
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Equivalents

Examples

“Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum, horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs”

The fruit [of the syagrus tree] itself is large, hard, rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.

““… Nunc augur Apollō, / nunc Lyciae sortēs, nunc et Iove missus ab ipsō / interpres dīvom fert horrida iussa per aurās.” “Now prophetic Apollo, now the oracles of Lycia, and now – sent from Jupiter himself! – the divine interpreter [Mercury] brings grim orders through the air.””

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