Hideous

/ˈhɪd.i.əs/ · adjective

Meaning

Extremely or shockingly ugly..

Definitions by Sense

1. Extremely or shockingly ugly.
2. Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.
3. Hateful; shocking.
4. Morally offensive; shocking; detestable.

Example Sentences

I’m sorry to break it to you, but your dress looks truly hideous.

the Duke's army departed unmolested : but the highway along which he retired presented a piteous and hideous spectacle.

Like the "Kas," these locomotives were originally semi-streamlined, although their conical snout was not nearly so hideous as the sloping mock-radiators adorning the bigger engines.

He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.

[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?

Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver.

when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah’s head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.

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• more hideous
• most hideous

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