Adjective

hideous (comparative more hideous, superlative most hideous)

Positive hideous

Comparative more hideous

Superlative most hideous

1. Frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.

   A piteous and hideous spectacle." Thomas Babington Macaulay.

2. Distressing or offensive to the ear; horrible.
   • 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     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.

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

Synonyms

• frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, horrid, dreadful, terrible

Derived terms

• hideosity
• hideously
• hideousness