hideous

[ hid-ee-uhs ]
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adjective
  1. horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.

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

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

Origin of hideous

1
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

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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

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British Dictionary definitions for hideous

hideous

/ (ˈhɪdɪəs) /


adjective
  1. extremely ugly; repulsive: a hideous person

  2. terrifying and horrific

Origin of hideous

1
C13: from Old French hisdos, from hisde fear; of uncertain origin

Derived forms of hideous

  • hideously, adverb
  • hideousness or hideosity (ˌhɪdɪˈɒsɪtɪ), noun

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