hideous

[ hid-ee-uhs ]
/ ˈhɪd i əs /
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adjective

horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
shocking or revolting to the moral sense: a hideous crime.
distressing; appalling: the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.

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Origin of hideous

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

OTHER WORDS FROM hideous

Words nearby hideous

hidebound, hide nor hair, neither, hide one's face, hide one's head in the sand, hide one's light under a bushel, hideous, hideout, hidey-hole, Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, hiding
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Words related to hideous

macabre, ghastly, horrendous, abominable, dreadful, horrid, monstrous, disgusting, revolting, terrifying, odious, repulsive, hateful, awful, gruesome, nasty, shocking, grim, terrible, appalling

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British Dictionary definitions for hideous

hideous
/ (ˈhɪdɪəs) /

adjective

extremely ugly; repulsivea hideous person
terrifying and horrific

Derived forms of hideous

hideously, adverbhideousness or hideosity (ˌhɪdɪˈɒsɪtɪ), noun

Word Origin for hideous

C13: from Old French hisdos, from hisde fear; of uncertain origin
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