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hideous

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hid⋅e⋅ous

  [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.
3. distressing; appalling: the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME hidous < OF hisdos, equiv. to hisde horror, fright (perh. < OHG *egisida, akin to egisôn, agison to frighten) + -os -ous; suffix later assimilated to -eous

Related forms:
hid⋅e⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
hid⋅e⋅ous⋅ness, hid⋅e⋅os⋅i⋅ty  [hid-ee-os-i-tee] , noun

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

Antonyms:
1. attractive, pleasing.
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hid·e·ous   (hĭd'ē-əs)   
adj.  

  1. Repulsive, especially to the sight; revoltingly ugly. See Synonyms at ugly.

  2. Offensive to moral sensibilities; despicable.


[Middle English, variant of hidous, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French hide, hisde, fear, possibly of Germanic origin.]
hid'e·os'i·ty (-ŏs'ĭ-tē) n., hid'e·ous·ly adv., hid'e·ous·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

hideous 
c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. hidous, from O.Fr. hideus, earlier hisdos (11c.), from hisda "horror, fear," perhaps of Gmc. origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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