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| 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. |

hid·e·ous (hĭd'ē-əs) adj.
[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. |