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hideous
[ hid-ee-uhs ]
adjective
- horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly:
a hideous monster.
Synonyms: ghastly, appalling, dreadful, monstrous, odious, detestable, repellent, grim, grisly
Antonyms: attractive, pleasing
- shocking or revolting to the moral sense:
a hideous crime.
Synonyms: ghastly, appalling, dreadful, monstrous, odious, detestable, repellent, grim, grisly
- distressing; appalling:
the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.
hideous
/ ˌhɪdɪˈɒsɪtɪ; ˈhɪdɪəs /
adjective
- extremely ugly; repulsive
a hideous person
- terrifying and horrific
Derived Forms
- ˈhideously, adverb
- ˈhideousness, noun
Other Words From
- hide·ous·ly adverb
- hide·ous·ness hid·e·os·i·ty [hid-ee-, os, -i-tee], noun
- un·hide·ous adjective
- un·hide·ous·ly adverb
- un·hide·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hideous1
Example Sentences
There’s Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the hideous yet hapless Trumpist who mentored hatemonger Stephen Miller.
For others, it’s an ugly graveyard, the evidence of one of our nation’s most hideous acts of industrial hubris, damning the Southwest’s largest free-flowing artery, the Colorado River.
You can draw the line from Andy Warhol to these hideous, hundred-and-whatever storied towers full of super rich semi-residents along the southern edge of Central Park.
As hideous as it is now, to Peinado and others there’s no way to imagine it getting anything but worse.
Somehow, a campus I once thought hideous has become beautiful to me.
“We went on to Tramp…He was the most hideous dancer I had ever seen,” she tells the Mail.
On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze.
And the Jamaica Observer routinely runs hideous cartoons about gay people and incites violence against them.
To be clear, this account is in no way meant to excuse these hideous attacks—only perhaps to explain them.
These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.
Aristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.
On the upper part of each of these posts was a rude carving of a hideous human face with prominent teeth.
A hideous old crone covered with rags knelt beside the Duchesss, who on leaving the church offered her holy water.
During all this time they howl continually in a most discordant manner, and make the most hideous faces.
In the second part of the poem the lady is threatened by an unwelcome suitor, in the person of a hideous giant.
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