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Definition: Hideously |
HideouslyAdverb1. In a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured after the accident". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hideously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Synonyms: HideouslySynonyms: horridly (adv), monstrously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hideously |
| English words defined with "hideously": horridly ♦ monstrously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hideously": Macbriar ♦ Presentable. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hideously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hideously" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 85 | 35,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hideously": hideously-hued. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hideously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 丑陋地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hroznì (abominably, abysmally, appallingly, awfully, deadly, frightfully, hellishly, horribly, painfully), šerednì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abscheuliche (abominable, detestably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszataszítóan (appallingly, repulsively, revoltingly), rettenetesen (awful, awfully, bally, fiendishly, horribly), förtelmesen (abominably, atrociously), csúnyán (nastily, to play sy a dirty trick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무시무시하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ideouslyhay hidos (grisly, hideous, monstrous, ugly, unsightly), oribil (abominable, detestable, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horribly, horrid, horrific, monstrous). (various references) feamente. (various references) огидно (abhorrently, dreadfully, nauseatingly, obnoxiously, odiously, offensively), бридко (beastly, nastily, offensively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Hideously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hideosly, hidiously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hideously" (pronounced hi"dēuslē) |
| 6 | -d ē u s l ē | studiously, tediously. |
| 5 | -ē u s l ē | contemporaneously, curiously, enviously, erroneously, furiously, gloriously, harmoniously, hilariously, instantaneously, laboriously, mysteriously, notoriously, obviously, precariously, previously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, generously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, hellaciously, helplessly, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, nervously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precipitously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, strenuously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unconsciously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-l-o-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: doylies, hideous, loudish. | |
-3 letters: dholes, helios, hoised, holies, housed, housel, hoyles, hyoids, isohel, louies, loused, lushed, odyles, oldies, oldish, shield, should, siloed, soiled, souled, yields, yodels, yodles. | |
-4 letters: deils, delis, dhole, diols, dishy, doily, doles, douse, duels, dulse, eidos, heils, helio, helos, hides, hilus, hoise, holds, holed, holes, holey, hosed, hosel, house, hoyle. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-l-o-s-u-y" | |
+4 letters: hyaluronidase. | |
+5 letters: hyaluronidases. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 64 65 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. -.. . --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i d e o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0064 0065 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427570718187857891 |
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