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Etymology
OE. hidous, OF. hidous, hidos, hidus, hisdos, hisdous, F. hideux: confer OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; confer OHG. egidī horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, E. hispid.

Adjective
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1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.

#: A piteous and hideous spectacle." Macaulay.

1. Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise. Hideous cries." Shak.

#* 1719: w:Daniel Defoe|Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe
#*: He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.

1. Hateful; shocking. Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." Shak. Syn. -- Frightful; ghastly; grim; grisly; horrid; dreadful; terrible.

Translations
trans-top|dreadful to behold
Finnish: hirveä, kauhea, inhottava, hirvittävä
German: scheu�lich
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trans-top|Distressing or offensive to the ear
Finnish: hirveä, kauhea, hirvittävä
German: scheu�lich
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trans-top|Hateful; shocking
Finnish: hirveä, kauhea, hirvittävä
German: abscheulich
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See also
hideously
hideousness

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