very ugly or unpleasant:
a hideous face / building / dress * Their new colour scheme is hideous! * a hideous crime * The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare. * When they refused to let me leave my hotel, I thought, at first, it was all some hideous mistake.
hideously adverb:
His face was hideously deformed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hideous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hideous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hideous is tagged as adjective.
Does hideous appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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