hideous

Definition

  • adjective: very ugly or disgusting
  • adjective: offensive to the senses and especially to sight
  • synonyms: grim, ghastly, horrid

Examples

  • Her face was 'hideously' deformed by the fire.

  • The room was filled with 'hideous' furniture.

  • He let out a 'hideous' [='frightful'] laugh.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) in rage strikes wide But with the weight and wind of his fell sword the unnerved father falls Then did the senseless city seem to feel this blow And with a hideous crash take prisoner Pyrrhus' ear For lo, his sword, which was declining on the milky head of reverend Priam... (..)
    2015 Hamlet