Word Frequency
hideously (ˈhɪdɪəslɪ)
Definitions
adverb
- used to emphasize that something is extremely ugly or unattractive ⇒
Everything is hideously ugly.
⇒He has been left hideously disfigured by plastic surgery.
- used to emphasize that something is very unpleasant or unacceptable ⇒
a hideously complex program
⇒a simple but undoubtedly hideously expensive black suit
⇒Everyone was hideously drunk.
Translations for 'hideously'
- British English: hideously You use hideously to emphasize that something is very ugly or unattractive. ADVERB...a hideously complex program.
- Brazilian Portuguese: tremendamente
- Chinese: 可怕地
- European Spanish: horriblemente
- French: hideusement
- German: furchtbar
- Italian: orribilmente
- Japanese: ひどく
- Korean: 소름끼치게
- Portuguese: tremendamente
- Spanish: horriblemente
Example Sentences Including 'hideously'
' It doesn't help that banks `` hideously overcharge ' on fees.Courier, Sunday Mail (2004)
All it took was one person rifling through the clothes for an entire display to look hideously untidy.JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
Apart from being extremely ugly (think mud tennis balls with fangs), deep-sea angler fish are also hideously kinky.The Australian (2004)
In London after the exhibition she had felt hideously exposed, as if someone had walked up to her in the street and ripped off her clothes.The Image of Laura
It remains hideously expensive and inefficient because it is so fragile.Spiked (2003)
Katharine was influential enough to scotch this hideously callous plan.Kitty O'Shea - The Story of Katharine Parnell
Later, he is in Maya's home when it burns down, hideously scarring her mother.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
Minnie had been so touchingly grateful for Rose's help that Rose felt hideously guilty for not doing more sooner.JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
Of course, the death of any father is a hideously traumatic experience for a child.Times, Sunday Times (2001)
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