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# hideous

«hideous» in Mova's school dictionary: **extremely ugly or horrible to look at** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (hideous, more hideous, most hideous)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hideous means extremely ugly or horrible to look at. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#m1)

2) Hideous also means very unpleasant or shocking, like a hideous crime or a hideous noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories hideous describes monsters, trolls and nasty faces, helping the reader picture something frightening. In everyday talk, children may joke that a jumper or wallpaper is hideous, which is an exaggeration. Be kind: calling a person hideous is very hurtful. Phrases: a hideous monster, hideous noise.

### examples

- The troll had a hideous face covered in warts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x1)
- Aunt Jo knitted me a hideous orange jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x2)
- The machine made a hideous screech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x3)
- The witch let out a hideous laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x4)
- That was a hideous crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x5)
- I think the new car colour is hideous, but Dad loves it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x6)
- ‘Who is that hideous old witch?’ said the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/#x7)

### note

Say «HID-ee-us». Stronger than ugly. The adverb is «hideously». It is not related to «hide», although it looks similar.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hideous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hideous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.