hideoushid‧e‧ous /ˈhɪdiəs/ adjective 
Word Origin
a hideous dress hideous crimes Dinnertime that day was hideous.—hideously adverb: Her face was hideously scarred.—hideousness noun [uncountable]
Word OriginWORD ORIGINhideous
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Old French hidous, from hide ‘terror’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- a hideous crime
- a man with a hideous twisted lip
- Emma was wearing an absolutely hideous purple and orange dress.
- In fairy stories the Prince is always very handsome, and the witch hideous.
- One of our wedding presents was a hideous clock.
- Each of the damned souls was guarded by a group of hideous demons.
- Everyone knows that hideous accidents happen, however precise modern weapons are supposed to be.
- Exactly how hideous had it been?
- He became vast and covered me, covered my face, his hideous throat working.
- One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
- Roosevelt saw first-hand the hideous results of free enterprise untouched by government regulation.
- Seconds later, the night was made hideous by the shrieks of alarm from the man-apes in the cave above.
Longman Language Activatorperson► ugly
Collocations extremely unattractive, with a face that is not at all nice to look at: · We hated our uncle. He was fat and ugly, with tiny eyes and a long, pointed nose .· An ugly little man came over and offered to buy me a drink.
► hideous extremely ugly, especially because you were born with something wrong with you: · In fairy stories the Prince is always very handsome, and the witch hideous.· a man with a hideous twisted lip
► repulsive very ugly and extremely unpleasant to look at, especially so that people do not like to look at you: · Delia was frightened of the operation, because afterwards she knew she would look repulsive.repulsive to: · The patient's disease was so terrible that his own skin was repulsive to him.
► grotesque extremely ugly in a strange or unnatural way: · The boy was twisting one side of his face in grotesque imitation of his grandfather.· Suddenly the grotesque figure of the hunchback Quasimodo loomed out of the darkness.
► unsightly an unsightly spot, mark, hair on your face etc is very unattractive: unsightly scar/fat/mark/spot/hair etc: · The accident left Simon with unsightly scars.· Electrolysis gets rid of unsightly facial hair.
► he's/she's no oil-painting British /she's no Miss America American informal use this as a humorous way of saying that someone is ugly: · "What's Anna's new boyfriend like?" "Well, he's nice, but he's no oil painting."
object/building etc► ugly very unpleasant to look at: · Local residents think that the new shopping centre is one of the ugliest buildings in the city.· The room was bare except for a few pieces of ugly furniture.
► unsightly something that is unsightly is unpleasant to look at, and spoils the appearance of the things around it: · Bushes and plants make the perfect screen for unsightly objects such as dustbins.· Tight bras and knickers can cause unsightly bulges under close-fitting clothes.
► unattractive not at all pleasant to look at: · The town is surrounded by large, unattractive housing estates that nobody wants to live in.· Wearing an unattractive blouse and old-fashioned skirt, Lisa looked older than she was.
► hideous extremely ugly: · One of our wedding presents was a hideous clock.· Emma was wearing an absolutely hideous purple and orange dress.
► revolting something that is revolting is so ugly that you do not like to look at it: · Remember that three piece suite Mrs Killeen had? It was grey and mustard. It was absolutely revolting!· Who's that TV presenter who always wears those revolting sweaters?
► monstrosity a very large ugly building or object: · I rented a Spanish-style monstrosity in Beverly Hills while my apartment was redecorated.· This building is another monstrosity celebrated as a brilliant piece of architecture.
► an eyesore a large and very ugly building that you cannot avoid seeing: · They built a huge office block right next to the old cathedral - what an eyesore!· Intended to be the world's largest casino, it now stands as an eyesore near the big tourist and convention hotels of New Orleans.
► blot on the landscape British something that spoils the view, especially an ugly building: · The container site at North Farm is a real blot on the landscape.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► most
extremely unpleasant or ugly: · There they had little hope of meeting, wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen.· To me it is a most hideous brute.
a hideous dress hideous crimes Dinnertime that day was hideous.—hideously adverb: Her face was hideously scarred.—hideousness noun [uncountable]