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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; 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
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
Related forms
hid·e·ous·ly, adverb
un·hid·e·ous, adjective
un·hid·e·ous·ly, adverb
un·hid·e·ous·ness, noun
Synonyms
1, 2. grisly, grim; repellent, detestable, odious, monstrous, dreadful, appalling, ghastly.
1, 2. grisly, grim; repellent, detestable, odious, monstrous, dreadful, appalling, ghastly.
Antonyms
1. attractive, pleasing.
1. attractive, pleasing.
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Example Sentences
- Making matters worse, I had the world's most hideous boss.
- Some of these rejection letters are worse than others, some truly hideous.
- The diseases that these vaccines protect our children from are hideous.
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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.
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