Hateful, disgusting, loathsome, repulsive, hideous, horrible. Rare in 17th and 18th centuries; revived in the 19th cent. as a literary word.
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| 释义 | the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] > hideous (10) loathlyc900 Hateful, disgusting, loathsome, repulsive, hideous, horrible. Rare in 17th and 18th centuries; revived in the 19th cent. as a literary word. grislya1150 Causing horror, terror, or extreme fear; horrible or terrible to behold or to hear; causing such… of visible objects, their qualities, etc. hideous1303 Frightful, dreadful, terrible, horrible; hence, horribly ugly or unpleasing, repulsive, revolting. In the original sense the notion was that of… unherlyc1325 Repulsive. bysenc1375 attributive or as adj. Monstrous, shocking, conspicuously bad or disgraceful. vilely1398 Vile in appearance. laidlya1400 Offensive, hideous, repulsive. squalid1620 In general use: repulsive or loathsome to look at. frightful1700 objectively. Horrible to contemplate, shocking, dreadful, revolting. Often hyperbolically applied to bad or annoying things; cf. awful, adj., fearful… gorgonesque1888 Having the characteristics of a gorgon; hideous, repulsive. |
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