OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 27979

hideous

/ˈhɪd.i.əs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
atemorizante • chocante • espantoso • horrendo • horrible • odioso
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.
chocante • odioso • truculento
Hateful; shocking.
Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver.
discordante • estridente • ruidoso
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…