Synonyms for hideous
ˈhɪd i əshideous

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1. hideousadjective

   Synonyms:
   horrid, grim, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, grotesque, terrible

2. hideousadjective

   Frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.

   A piteous and hideous spectacle. Thomas Babington Macaulay.

   Synonyms:
   grotesque, frightful, grisly, terrible, horrid, ghastly, grim, dreadful

3. hideousadjective

   Distressing or offensive to the ear; horrible.

   Synonyms:
   grisly, grim, terrible, frightful, grotesque, dreadful, ghastly, horrid

4. hideousadjective

   Hateful; shocking.

   Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver. - William Shakespeare

   Synonyms:
   terrible, dreadful, grim, grotesque, ghastly, frightful, grisly, horrid

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1. hideous

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

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1. hideous

   Synonyms:
   frightful, unshapely, monstrous, horrid, horrible, ugly, grisly, grim, ghastly

   Antonyms:
   graceful, beautiful, captivating, attractive

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1. hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageousadjective

   grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

   "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

   Synonyms:
   dread(a), fearsome, extortionate, direful, terrible, horrific, dreaded, dire, unconscionable, fearful, frightening, horrendous, awful, usurious, exorbitant, dreadful, outrageous, repulsive, steep, horrid

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, inoffensive

2. hideous, repulsiveadjective

   so extremely ugly as to be terrifying

   "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"

   Synonyms:
   detestable, repugnant, repulsive(a), outrageous, horrific, obscene, horrid, abhorrent, repulsive

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, beautiful

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1. ugly

   something that isn't pretty is ugly.

   the combination of those colors is really hideous!

   Submitted by JP03 on October 23, 2014  

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1. hideousadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightful, dreadful, appalling, horrible, terrible, horrid, ghastly, grisly, grim, shocking

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1. hideousadjective

   Synonyms:
   horrible, grim, ogreish, grisly, repulsive, ugly, ghastly, shocking

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1. List of paraphrases for "hideous":

   ugly, heinous, horrible, awful, grisly, terrible, horrendous, odious, abominable, abhorrent, horrific, atrocious, dreadful, appalling, gruesome, despicable, horrid

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How to use hideous in a sentence?

1. Zack Rosenburg:

   It was hideous, the lucky families were the ones living in 30-foot FEMA trailers with six or seven other people.

2. Boris Johnson:

   Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily, this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure.

3. Virginia Roberts Giuffre:

   Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me.

4. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:

   I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

5. The wise Pharoah Moe:

   Non-political conclusion- Egypt: Those days following the catastroph 25th of January, my philosophy about the abstract meanings of humanity and life have been amended, that I observed how much of hideous dirt exists deep inside the Egyptian individuals, that such days immensly braught it up to the surface..