hideous

[ hid-ee-uhs ]

/ ˈhɪd i əs /

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adjective

horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.

shocking or revolting to the moral sense: a hideous crime.

distressing; appalling: the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.

Origin of hideous

1275–1325; Middle English hidous < Old French hisdos, equivalent to hisde horror, fright (perhaps < Old High German *egisida, akin to egisôn, agison to frighten) + -os -ous; suffix later assimilated to -eous

SYNONYMS FOR hideous

1, 2 grisly, grim; repellent, detestable, odious, monstrous, dreadful, appalling, ghastly.

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ANTONYMS FOR hideous

1 attractive, pleasing.

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OTHER WORDS FROM hideous

hid·e·ous·ly, adverb hid·e·ous·ness, hid·e·os·i·ty

[hid-ee-os-i-tee] /ˌhɪd iˈɒs ɪ ti/, noun un·hid·e·ous, adjective un·hid·e·ous·ly, adverb

un·hid·e·ous·ness, noun

Words nearby hideous

hide-a-bed, hide-and-seek, hideaway, hideaway bed, hidebound, hideous, hideout, hidey-hole, hideyoshi, hideyoshi toyotomi, hiding

Example sentences from the Web for hideously

A British editorialist called it, “mesmerizingly precious and hideously self-indulgent.”

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It also would have been seen as hideously politically incorrect.

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The lovely stretch of coastline in front of it was hideously strewn with rubbish.

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Those are hideously bad ideas that have driven us into the ditch we're in.

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Hideously unpopular, and never personally interested in policy matters, he did his best to stay out of the limelight.

Bush Comes Out of Hiding |Matthew Yglesias |May 29, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
It was a wild, unkempt figure, with straggling beard, hideously staring eyes.

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The sullen and hideously painted warriors strutted to and fro in the village.

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All the mists of abstraction have now disappeared: here we are on ground which is hideously clear.

The Heavenly Father |Ernest Naville
They were hideously maimed and distorted, and had the seeming of creatures that had been racked in millenniums of hell.

The House of Pride |Jack London
We were living as hideously in a state of war before as now, except that it was not physically bloody.

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British Dictionary definitions for hideously

hideous

/ (ˈhɪdɪəs) /

adjective

extremely ugly; repulsive a hideous person

terrifying and horrific

Derived forms of hideous

hideously, adverb hideousness or hideosity (ˌhɪdɪˈɒsɪtɪ), noun

Word Origin for hideous

C13: from Old French hisdos, from hisde fear; of uncertain origin

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