hideous

UK /ˈhɪd.i.əs/ US /ˈhɪd.i.əs/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

Extremely or shockingly ugly.

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.

2

Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.

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.

3

Hateful; shocking.

[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.

4

Morally offensive; shocking; detestable.

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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