单词 | hideousness |
释义 | hideoushid‧e‧ous /ˈhɪdiəs/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINhideous ExamplesOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French hidous, from hide ‘terror’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
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: a hideous dress hideous crimes Dinnertime that day was hideous.—hideously adverb: Her face was hideously scarred.—hideousness noun [uncountable]· 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. |
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