Hideous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hideous \Hid"e*ous\ (h[i^]d"[-e]*[u^]s; 277), a. [OE. hidous,
     OF. hidous, hidos, hidus, hisdos, hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF.
     hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egid[imac]
     horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, E.
     hispid.]
     1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to


        behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous
        and hideous spectacle." --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or
        dismay; as, a hideous noise. "Hideous cries." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Hateful; shocking. "Sure, you have some hideous matter to
        deliver." --Shak.
  
     Syn: Frightful; ghastly; grim; grisly; horrid; dreadful;
          terrible. -- {Hid"e*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Hid"e*ous*ness},
          n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hideous
       adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
              "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern
              of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining
              industry" [syn: {horrid}, {horrific}, {outrageous}]
       2: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a
          repulsive mask" [syn: {repulsive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "hideous":
     abhorrent, abominable, appalling, astounding, atrocious,
     awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, beastly, contemptible,
     damnable, dire, direful, disgusting, dread, dreaded, dreadful,
     exceptionable, execrable, fell, forbidding, formidable, foul,
     frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome,
     hateful, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
     horrifying, ill-favored, ill-looking, inadmissible, loathsome,
     lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating, nauseous,
     odious, offensive, outrageous, redoubtable, repellent, repelling,
     repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, schrecklich, shocking,
     sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tragic, tremendous,
     ugly, unacceptable, unbeautiful, uncomely, undesirable, unsightly,
     unspeakable, unwanted, unwelcome, vile