Hideous
['hɪdɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; 'a hideous scar'; 'a repulsive mask' .
(adj.) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; 'subjected to outrageous cruelty'; 'a hideous pattern of injustice'; 'horrific conditions in the mining industry' .
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Definition
(a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
(a.) Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.
(a.) Hateful; shocking.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Frightful, dreadful, appalling, horrible, terrible, horrid, ghastly, grisly, grim, shocking.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Frightful, unshapely, monstrous, horrid, horrible, ugly, grisly, grim, ghastly
ANT:Graceful, beautiful, captivating, attractive
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Definition
adj. frightful: horrible: ghastly.—ns. Hideos′ity Hid′eousness.—adv. Hid′eously.
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Examples
- Paul; they are too hideous: but if you admire themallow me to vacate my seat and leave you to their contemplation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At least, we may take counsel how far we can minimize this hideous scandal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The last crevice had closed, and for a long year that hideous chamber would retain its secret from the eyes of men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As I reached their side a glance showed me that all but a very few eggs had hatched, the incubator being fairly alive with the hideous little devils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It has no connection with this hideous business to-night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, but scandal with it--a hideous mustering of tongues. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The engines and dynamos made a horrible racket, from loud and deep groans to a hideous shriek, and the place seemed to be filled with sparks and flames of all colors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I can not describe the hideous afternoon's ride from the Dead Sea to Mars Saba. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A stream of water trickled ceaselessly over the hideous face. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He was always hideous, but he looks more awful than ever now, for he appears to have had an accident and he is much disfigured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was no living being near to soothe her, or withdraw her from this hideous company. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If he were not only to sink from his highest resolve, but to sink into the hideous fettering of domestic hate? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Am I hideous, Jane? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My dear, am I perfectly hideous? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He heartily despised himself, he was angry with Perdita, and the idea of Evadne was attended by all that was hideous and cruel. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Hideous, abhorrent, base blunder! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I mean that I thought her the most repulsive and vilely hideous creature my eyes ever had rested upon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As he dropped to the ground to force his way into the tree, the whole howling pack of hideous devils hurled themselves upon me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Their hardness--their hideous, worldly hardness--revolted me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She hated it, she knew how utterly cut off it was, how hideous and how sickeningly mindless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At length he recollected the whole hideous scene at the stake, and finally recalled the strange white figure in whose arms he had sunk into oblivion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Presently when he was asleep she came softly in with a hammer and drove a hideous tent-pen down through his brain! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My person was hideous, and my stature gigantic: what did this mean? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That there was, indeed, some malign divinity in that hideous carcass! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As Mr. Weller said this, the man's features assumed an unearthly twinge, perfectly hideous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She herself knew too well the actuality of humanity, its hideous actuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Also should I devote my life to the extermination of the hideous plant men and their horrible companions, the great white apes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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