Hideous

Definitions: Hideous

Hideous

Adjective

1. Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry".

2. So extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hideous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Hideous

Pain

Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous.

Ugliness

Frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody, grody to the max; horrid, horrible; shocking; (painful).

Crosswords: Hideous

And as punishment she transformed him into a hideous beast and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

I'm hideous! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Ms. Bitters, have you noticed anything strange about the hamster? He's three times his size and he has that hideous throbbing alien device on his back. (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Incidentally, I've taken your little wisecracks for a few years now, you hideous gargoyle, and if you ever open that gateway to hell you call a mouth in my direction again, I'll snap off your extremities like dead branches and feed them to you at gunpoint. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Society is never gonna make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. Now, let's go over there and make these hideous strangers feel welcome. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

The Hideous Sun Demon (1959)

Hideous Sun Demon What's Up (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (reference)

• Bridge in the Menagerie: The Winning Ways of the Hideous Hog (reference)

• Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (reference)

• Dr. Strangelove and the Hideous Epoch: Deterrence in the Nuclear Age (reference)

• Hideous idiocy : forty years of psychiatric slander by the US government ; as experienced (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hideous Kinky (reference)

• Hideous! (reference)

• Hideous Sun Demons (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hideous Kinky: Soundtrack From The Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I hate him with an H, because he is Hideous.

We may say, by the way, that success is a hideous thing.

These devils, who were once beautiful angels, have become as hideous and ugly as they once were beautiful.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaan

afskuwelik (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, dreadful, gruesome, horrible, terrible), afgryslik (agonizing, dismal, dreary, ghastly, horrible, nasty). (various references)

Albanian

i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i shëmtuar (disfigured, frightful, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, oaf, ugly, uncomely, unhandsome, unsightly), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, flagrant, gross, horrible, horrid, monstrous, outrageous, shocking, terrible, ugly), ‏قبيح (disgusting, fiend, homely, monstrous, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, outrageous, ugly), ‏شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous), ‏بشع (atrocious, grasping, grievous, gruesome, homely, horrid, shapeless, ugly, ungainly, unhandsome, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грозен (eyesore, grotesque, ill-favored, ill-favoured, morbid, ugly, unlovely, unsightly), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked). (various references)

Chinese 

猙 (fierce-looking, place name), 丑陋 (ugliness), 可怕 (awful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, horrible, terrible, terribly). (various references)

Czech

strašný (awful, chronic, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, hairy, hellish, hopeless, horrible, horrific, terrible, tremendous), ohyzdný (ill-favored, ill-favoured, ugly), ohavný (abominable, despicable, detestable, execrable, ghastly, heinous, horrendous, horrid, odious, ugly, unspeakable, vile, villainous), obludný (monstrous, whopping), ošklivý (bad, dirty, foul, grisly, horrid, mean, nasty, ugly, unsightly), šeredný (beastly, foul, nasty, ugly). (various references)

Danish

afskyelig (dismal, dreary, ghastly, horrible, nasty). (various references)

Dutch

verfoeilijk (gruesome, horrible), verfoeilýk (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, horrible), afschuwelijk (gruesome, horrible), afschuwelýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty), afgrijselijk (gruesome, horrible), afgrýselýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty), ijselijk (gruesome, horrible, terrible), ýselýk (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, dreadful, gruesome, horrible, terrible). (various references)

Esperanto

terurega (ghastly, horrible), abomeninda (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, horrible), abomena (dismal, dreary, ghastly, horrible, nasty). (various references)

Farsi 

مهیب (Grisly, Gruesome, Horrendous, Horrible, Horrid, Macabre, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), مخوف (Ghastly, Gruesome, Horrible, Ugsome), وقیح , ترسناک (Dire, Ghastly, Grim, Horrid, Lurid, Macabre, Nightmarish, Redoubtable, Terrible, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), سهمگین (Horrible), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), شنیع (Bawdy, Foul, Heinous, Nefarious). (various references)

Finnish

hirvittävä (grievous, horrible, horrid), hirveän näköinen, inhottava (abominable, detestable, disgusting, loathsome, nasty), inhottaa (abominable, detestable, disgusting, loathsome). (various references)

French

horrible, repoussant, hideux, abominable. (various references)

Frisian

in griis (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, horrible), ôfgryslik (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, ghastly, gruesome, horrible). (various references)

German

scheußlich (abominable, atrocious, atrociously, awful, beastly, dreadful, execrable, nastily, nasty, putrid, revolting, ungodly, vile). (various references)

Greek 

βδελυρόσ (abhorrent, abominable), φρικιαστικόσ (grisly, horrendous, horrific), φρικτόσ (appalling, atrocious, dire, direful, dismals, ghastly, gruesome, horrible), ειδεχθήσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתועב (abhorrent, abominable, atrocious, execrable, ghoulish, heinous, infamous, repulsive, vile), מכוער (ugly, unsightly), איום (awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fell, frightful, grim, intimidation, menace, terrible, terrific, threat). (various references)

Hungarian

undok (abominable, execrable, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, odious), förtelmes (abominable, disgusting, hateful, heinous), csúnya (dirty, disagreeable, inelegant, nasty, ugly, unlovely). (various references)

Icelandic

hryllilegur (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alarmed, alien, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible), hræðilegur (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty, terrible), viðbjóðslegur (dismal, dreary, ghastly, horrible, nasty), andstyggilegur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, gruesome, horrible). (various references)

Indonesian

seram (lurid). (various references)

Italian

orrendo (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrid, nasty, revolting, terrible), orribile (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, beastly, dreadful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrific, macabre, revolting, shocking), abominevole (abominable, beastly, dismal, dreary, ghastly, horrible, nasty, nefarious). (various references)

Korean 

무시무시한. (various references)

Manx

graney (bad-looking, dirty, dirty as trick, execrable, gruesome, ill-favoured, lousy, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, revolting, rotten, ugly, uncomely), feer-ghraney (atrocious, atrocious clothing). (various references)

Norwegian

heslig (nasty, ugly), skrekkelig (abysmal, dreadful, frightful, gruesome, horrible, terrible). (various references)

Papiamen

feroso (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty, terrible), feros (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty, terrible), abominabel (abhorrent, abject, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, disdainful, disgusting, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty, nauseous, terrible). (various references)

Pig Latin

ideoushay

Portuguese

horrível (abysmal, awful, direful, dismal, dread, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horrific, nasty, terrible, unholy), hediondo (flagitious, heinous), tacanho (gooey, narrow), repugnante (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, brackish, carrion, disgusting, forbidding, grievously, gruesome, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nautical, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury), muito feio, medonho (awful, dire, direful, dread, Dreadnought, forbidding, frightful, grisly, horribly, inferno, terrible, tremendous), abominável (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, alien, atrocious, awful, dismal, dreary, foul, gruesome, hateful, heinous, horrible, infamous character, nasty, negate, odious). (various references)

Romanian

hidos (grisly, hideously, monstrous, ugly, unsightly), hâd, zãbãlos, urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), urâcios (disagreeable, disgusting, grumpy, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), oribil (abominable, detestable, gruesome, hideously, horrible, horribly, horrid, horrific, monstrous), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Russian 

отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skaredan (ribald, scurrilous), skaradan (bawdy), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), gnusan (abominable, damnable, detestable, heinous, loathful, loathsome, nasty, noisome, sickening). (various references)

Spanish

horroroso (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, horrible, horrid, horrifying, nasty, wicked), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), abominable (abhorrent, abominable, abominably, alien, awful, damnably, detestable, gruesome, horrible, infamous, rotten, ugly, undelightful, unspeakable). (various references)

Swedish

hisklig (abominable, agonizing, ghastly, horrible, horrid), hemsk (abysmal, agonizing, alarmed, atrocious, awful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, dismal, dismayed, dreadful, dreary, dumbfounded, eerie, eery, fell, frantic, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, harrowing, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, put out of countenance, terrible, terrific, uncanny, weird, wicked), ruskig (dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, disreputable, foul, hidecous, nasty, raw, scary), otäck (beastly, filthy, hidecous, horrid, nasty, ugly, unearthly, wicked, wickedness), motbjudande (abhorrent, disgusting, distasteful, foul, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, pestilential, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury), gruvlig (agonizing, dreadful, ghastly, horrible). (various references)

Thai

น่ากลัว (awful, eerie, fearsome, gruesome, horrendous, horrid, horrific). (various references)

Turkish

korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Turkmen 

gelюiksiz (disadvantageous). (various references)

Ukranian 

страшенний (abysmal, almighty, arch-, blue, deuced, howling, infernal, precious, rabid, raging, right-down, terrible), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), бридкий (abominable, antipathetic, antipathetical, bad, damned, loathful, nasty, noisome, offensive, sickening). (various references)

Welsh

hyll (ugly), erchyll (atrocious, horrible). (various references)

abominabilis, atrox, aversabilis, informem, informibus, informis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hideous": hideously, hideousness, hideousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hideous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haddaoui, hideo, hidesous, hideus, hidious, Hidipo, hidous, hindoos, hiteous, videous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hoised, housed.

-2 letters: douse, eidos, hides, hoise, hosed, house, shied, shoed.

-3 letters: dies, dish, does, dose, dues, duos, edhs, hide, hied, hies, hods, hoed, hoes, hose, hued, hues, ides, odes, ohed, ouds, shed, shod, shoe, side, sued, udos, used.

-4 letters: die, dis, doe, dos, due, duh, dui, duo, edh, eds, hes, hid, hie, his.

+1 letter: hideouts.

+2 letters: birdhouse, cushioned, doughiest, hideously, housemaid, nourished, outchides, outfished, outshined, outwished.

+3 letters: authorised, birdhouses, bounderish, doughtiest, drouthiest, echiuroids, eunuchoids, flourished, hierodules, housemaids, mistouched, roughdries, unpolished.

+4 letters: audiophiles, beshrouding, copublished, deinonychus, diadelphous, discotheque, doughtiness, droughtiest, enshrouding, hideousness, honeyguides, mustachioed, rhomboideus, roughriders, shouldering, silhouetted.

+5 letters: discotheques, doublethinks, droughtiness, groundfishes, hebetudinous, housetrained, malnourished, orchidaceous.

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