单词 | hideous |
释义 | hideousadj.adv. A. adj. 1. a. Frightful, dreadful, terrible, horrible; hence, horribly ugly or unpleasing, repulsive, revolting. In the original sense the notion was that of ‘causing dread or horror’; this has gradually passed into that of ‘revolting to the senses or feelings’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] > hideous loathlyc900 grislya1150 hideous1303 unherlyc1325 bysenc1375 vilely1398 laidlya1400 squalid1620 frightful1700 gorgonesque1888 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] atelOE grislya1150 atelichc1175 grisfula1300 ugly13.. hideous1303 horrible1303 ghastlyc1305 stout1338 horrendc1420 ugsomec1425 grisilc1440 execrable1490 uggle1499 horrious?1520 uglisome1530 ugglesome1561 gruesome1570 grisy1590 gashfulc1600 horrid1602 ghast1622 gashly1627 horrific1653 horrendous1661 horrorous1756 horrifying1791 horrorish1847 grauly1848 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 10216 Of þat syȝt he gan him grys, For þat syȝt was hydous And dreful and perylous. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4772 It sal be hydus til mans heryng. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4435 Þe Sarsyn was an hudous man, By-twyne ys to browen was a span largeliche of brede. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Wisd. x. 16 He stood aȝens hidouse [1382 grisful] kyngis. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 258 A-ferd thai war with hidwis noyis and dyne. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. ix. sig. o.iiiiv Wofully cruciat with peynes hiduous. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 46 Hurld headlong..With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition. View more context for this quotation 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 160 Silence, ye Wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes Night hideous. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 233 Resembling a baboon in size, strength of body, and an hideous wrinkled visage. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iv. 303 More than a hundred thousand men, women, and children, suffered death in its most hideous forms. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. ix. 193 Lanes and alleys hideous with filth and poverty. 1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief Pref. 13 The hideous noises made by the rude machinery of the first steamboat. b. Terrific on account of size; tremendously or monstrously large; huge, immense. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge unmeeteOE unmeetlyOE hugea1275 hideousc1330 infinitec1385 unmeasureda1398 unmeasurablec1405 hugyc1420 immeasurable1440 ingentc1450 unmeetlyc1450 giant1480 immense1490 monstrous?a1513 unmeasurely1513 hugeousa1529 unportable1537 enormous1544 enormc1560 giantly1561 immensible1579 rouncival1582 dismeasured1584 vast1585 immeasured1590 gargantuan1596 omnipotent1596 colossian1601 immane1601 prodigious1601 Polyphemian1602 Titanian1603 titanical1603 gigantical1604 immensive1604 gigantine1605 colossic1607 gigantean1611 Gogmagotical1612 gigantal?1614 Babylonian1617 leviathan1625 titanic1628 elephantine1631 gigantive1638 colossean1644 decumanal1652 immensurate1654 gigant1658 decuman1659 colossal1664 abnormous1710 Brobdingnagian1728 Brobdingnag1731 Pantagruelian1737 heroic1785 Patagonian1786 seven-league1787 Titan1793 gigantic1797 seven-leagued1799 mammoth1801 dimensionless1813 tremendous1813 gigantesque1821 monster1837 titanesque1838 monstre1840 giantlike1847 leviathanic1848 pythonic1851 Babylonic1853 supercolossal1871 giantesque1909 behemothian1910 supergiant1919 ginormous1942 big-ass1945 Ozymandian1961 fuck-off1962 mega1968 humongous1970 monstro1970 big-assed1972 big-arsed1996 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 326 Þe kyng did mak right ȝare an hidous engyn. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxx. 110 He saw at the fote of the tree an hidowse pitte, ande ane orible dragone þere in. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 239/2 Hydows (K. hiddowus..), immanis, immensus. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 137 Als grete, wele nere, As bene ane heiddyous huddoun, or a quhale. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xii. sig. Y5 Of stature huge and hideous he was, Like to a Giant for his monstrous hight. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 7 This hidious Cataract [waterspout], as I conceiue is exhaled by the Suns powerfull Attract. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 105 The Elephant..tumbled down backwards into the River, with a most hideous plunge. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 146 The great precipice below, which hangs over the sea, is so hideous. 2. Terrible, distressing, or revolting to the moral sense; abominable, detestable; odious. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective] loatha700 eileOE andsetec1000 wlatfulc1230 aloathedc1275 wlatsomea1300 unhonest13.. wlata1325 hideousc1330 abominable1340 hatefula1382 hatesomea1382 abominablec1384 odiousa1387 fulsomec1390 accursedc1400 hatousc1400 rankc1400 hateablec1425 odiblec1425 ugsomec1425 wretchedc1430 loathsomec1440 loathfula1450 noisomea1450 abhominal1477 detestable1477 loathy1481 loathing?a1513 oppugnanta1513 irksome1513 hateworthy1548 abhorful1565 ugged1570 detestine1575 ulcerous1577 opposite1578 scandalous1592 offensive1594 obscene1597 ulcered1602 dirtya1616 abhorrent1628 toady1628 envious1630 repugnant1633 nauseating1645 nauseous1646 obnoxious1646 detestful1654 reluctant1663 horrid1666 abnoxious1682 devilish1692 invidious1710 repellent1776 repellant1780 sickening1789 toadish1822 carrion1826 ugging1839 cussed1853 repugnant1879 jerky1944 vomitous1952 barfy1957 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14268 Þerfore þe bataille was merueillous, & þe slaughter more hydous. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xi. 15 Doth many hidous giltus [a1425 L.V. greet trespassis]. c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 679 Thou shalt pronounce this idous thing With crosse & candell and bell knylling. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 143 In thy best consideration Checke this hideous rashnes. View more context for this quotation 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 351 We shall find them composed of a hideous Melancholy that makes up all Man-haters. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 195 Hard speech between those who have loved is hideous in the memory. 3. absol. A frightful person or object. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > [noun] > one who or that which inspires fear eyeeOE awea1325 dreadc1400 hideousc1420 scare1530 fear1535 fray-buga1555 dismayer1591 frightment1607 frighter?1611 affrighter1612 frightful1727 scarer1741 scare-sinner1765 scare-christian1772 scare-beggar1806 redoubtable1808 scare sleep1817 frightener1841 scare-bear1843 scare-bullfinch1849 scare-goose1887 ogreism1902 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > hideousness > hideous thing byseningc1375 hideousc1420 bysena1525 loathlyc1540 Mahoundc1540 loathsomeness1549 bysym1568 c1420 Awntyrs of Arth. 131 Who þat myghte þat hedows see..How hir cholle chatirede, hyr chaftis and hir chynne! Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adverb] grislyc1200 atelichec1275 uglilya1300 hideously1340 horribly1340 grisfullya1382 uglyc1420 gastfullyc1449 ugsomelyc1450 horriferouslyc1626 gashly1628 hideous1667 horrifically1693 ghastily1829 ghastlily1830 gruesomely1893 grizzel1898 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adverb] > disgustingly > hideously or revoltingly hideously1340 hideous1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 206 Nor less hideous joyn'd The horrid shock. View more context for this quotation 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 273 Here are..Snakes; some whereof are hideous great. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.1303 |
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