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hideous

[ hid-ee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly:

    a hideous monster.

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    Antonyms: ,

  2. shocking or revolting to the moral sense:

    a hideous crime.

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  3. distressing; appalling:

    the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.



hideous

/ ˌhɪdɪˈɒsɪtɪ; ˈhɪdɪəs /

adjective

  1. extremely ugly; repulsive

    a hideous person

  2. terrifying and horrific
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ󾱻dzܲ, adverb
  • ˈ󾱻dzܲԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • 󾱻·dzܲ· adverb
  • 󾱻·dzܲ·Ա 󾱻··Dz··ٲ [hid-ee-, os, -i-tee], noun
  • ܲ·󾱻·dzܲ adjective
  • un·󾱻·dzܲ· adverb
  • un·󾱻·dzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hideous1

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
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hideous1

C13: from Old French hisdos, from hisde fear; of uncertain origin
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Dunlop had told the Parole Board panel he had been a "violent, hideous, uncaring person" who could have gone on to kill other people.

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"It's just been hideous, really hideous, and I don't know why it happened," Naomi tells us.

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The yard was hideous, she said, composed almost entirely of boring hedges.

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The reality TV host has always embraced an aesthetic that is as hideous as it is expensive, from gold-plated everything to his vile haircut to his ill-fitted suits.

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Our hideous gun massacres, degrading entertainments and rampant addictions make clear that tens of millions of Americans feel abused or alienated enough to crave easy explanations and scapegoats to blame for their pain.

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