英语词汇“hideous”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hideous
释义	hid·eous \ˈhidēəs sometimes ÷ˈhijəs\ adjective Etymology: alteration (influenced by such words as courteous)of Middle English hidous, from Old French hisdos, hidous, hideus, from hisde, hide terror 1. a. : offensive to the sight : gruesome, ugly < one man still living in hideous squalor among the bones of his fellow travelers — Mabel R. Gillis > < a hideous congeries of fuming kilns — V.S.Pritchett > < writers concerning the warthog generally commence by enlarging upon its hideous appearance — James Stevenson-Hamilton > < a lampshade … too hideous for anyone in their senses to buy — W.H.Auden > b. : offensive to another of the senses : frightful, terrible < the hideous gasping struggle the asthmatic woman was making to get her breath — Leslie Ford > < during the summer this southward-facing row of buildings must be hideous with heat — G.R.Stewart > c. : appallingly large : monstrous < the great scar on a mountainside left by the racing snow, and the hideous mass of snow and soil and rock … on the valley floor — Russell Henderson > 2. a. : offensive to the mind or to the moral sense : hateful, shocking < monstrous and hideous thoughts — J.C.Powys > < a hideous pattern of injustice — Paul Blanshard > b. : embarrassing, ludicrous, dismaying < I am in hideous straits about the … performance of a play of mine — G.B.Shaw > < a hideous accident attended the serving of the dessert — Jean Stafford > Synonyms: see ugly
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