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[ hid -ee-uh s ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhɪd i əs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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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.
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
SYNONYMS FOR hideous 1, 2 grisly, grim; repellent, detestable, odious, monstrous, dreadful, appalling, ghastly.
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OTHER WORDS FROM hideous hid·e·ous·ly, adverb hid·e·ous·ness, hid·e·os·i·ty [hid-ee-os -i-tee], /ˌhɪd iˈɒs ɪ ti/, noun un·hid·e·ous, adjective un·hid·e·ous·ly, adverb un·hid·e·ous·ness, noun
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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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British Dictionary definitions for hideous adjective extremely ugly; repulsive a hideous person
terrifying and horrific
Derived forms of hideous hideously , adverb hideousness or hideosity (ˌhɪdɪˈɒsɪtɪ ), noun Word Origin for hideous C13: from Old French hisdos, from hisde fear; of uncertain origin
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