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单词 hideous
释义
hideous
adjective
uk
/ˈhɪd.i.əs/us
/ˈhɪd.i.əs/
extremelyuglyorbad:
极丑的；极坏的
They've justbuiltsome hideous newapartmentblockson theseafront.他们刚在滨海区建了一些极为难看的新公寓大楼。
Shewearsthe most hideouscolourcombinationsyou couldeverimagine.她穿着你能想象到的颜色搭配得最难看的衣服。
Synonyms
ghastlyUKinformal
grim(UNPLEASANT)informal
grotesque(UGLY)
ugly(NOT ATTRACTIVE)
unattractive
unprepossessing
unsightlyformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • chintzy
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideousness
  • homeliness
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • scrappy
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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Related word

hideousness
(Definition ofhideousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hideous| American Dictionary

hideous
adjective
us
/ˈhɪd·i·əs/
offensive,extremelyugly, orshocking:
Thebathroomwaspinkandgreenandsilver– it wasabsolutelyhideous.
(Definition ofhideousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhideous

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She is forced to acknowledge the hypocrisy of a father who concealed 'thehideousmystery' regarding the mills that generated all his wealth.
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Their crime is discovered by a piece ofhideousbad luck.
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Thishideousevent is obviously in large measure the consequence of human agency.
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These are dramatic genetic disorders that typically cause early death byhideouspathology.
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A right turn, however, led into ahideousmaze of semantic dead ends.
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Haven't you seen howhideousthe demoness looks?
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They find themselves surrounded byhideouspoverty, byhideousugliness, byhideousstarvation.
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Now, life gushed into the dust; now, organised matter combined, and suddenly stood in front of the throne - thehideouscamel.
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For rather than providing a wholesale endorsement of the interests of the state, the poem hinges on the rejection of a "hideousblunder" made by an official military institution.
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Why truncate it in thishideousfashion?
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He would become dreadful,hideous, and uncouth.
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Does he not agree that, to put the matter very kindly indeed, these edifices are at the very leasthideous, impractical and expensive?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It had all those other things—valves,hideousenclosures, concrete posts and wire netting, telephone wires going to little huts, and so on.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Is there no possibility of distributing electricity without covering the whole country with thesehideouspylons?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That is an appalling prospect, and ahideousresponsibility would descend on the shoulders of anyone who connived at or accepted such a proposal.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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