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 Englishhidous < Old Frenchhisdos, equivalent to hisde horror, fright (perhaps < Old High German*egisida, akin to egisôn, agison to frighten) + -os-ous; suffix later assimilated to -eous
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.