Hid·e·ous a.
1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. “A piteous and hideous spectacle.”
2. Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise. “Hideous cries.”
3. Hateful; shocking. “Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver.”
Syn: -- Frightful; ghastly; grim; grisly; horrid; dreadful; terrible.
-- Hid*e*ous*ly, adv. -- Hid*e*ous*ness, n.
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hideously
adv : in a hideous manner; "her face was hideously disfigured
after the accident" [syn: horridly, monstrously]