Antonyms for hideous
ˈhɪd i əshideous

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1. hideousadjective

   Synonyms:
   horrid, grim, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, grotesque, terrible

2. hideousadjective

   Frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.

   A piteous and hideous spectacle. Thomas Babington Macaulay.

   Synonyms:
   grotesque, frightful, grisly, terrible, horrid, ghastly, grim, dreadful

3. hideousadjective

   Distressing or offensive to the ear; horrible.

   Synonyms:
   grisly, grim, terrible, frightful, grotesque, dreadful, ghastly, horrid

4. hideousadjective

   Hateful; shocking.

   Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver. - William Shakespeare

   Synonyms:
   terrible, dreadful, grim, grotesque, ghastly, frightful, grisly, horrid

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1. hideous

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

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1. hideous

   Antonyms:
   graceful, beautiful, captivating, attractive

   Synonyms:
   frightful, unshapely, monstrous, horrid, horrible, ugly, grisly, grim, ghastly

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1. hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageousadjective

   grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

   "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, inoffensive

   Synonyms:
   dread(a), fearsome, extortionate, direful, terrible, horrific, dreaded, dire, unconscionable, fearful, frightening, horrendous, awful, usurious, exorbitant, dreadful, outrageous, repulsive, steep, horrid

2. hideous, repulsiveadjective

   so extremely ugly as to be terrifying

   "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, beautiful

   Synonyms:
   detestable, repugnant, repulsive(a), outrageous, horrific, obscene, horrid, abhorrent, repulsive

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1. hideousadjective

   Synonyms:
   horrible, grim, ogreish, grisly, repulsive, ugly, ghastly, shocking

How to use hideous in a sentence?

1. Boris Johnson:

   Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily, this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure.

2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:

   I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

3. Virginia Roberts Giuffre:

   Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me.

4. Felix Adler:

   The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

5. Eddie Redmayne:

   Similarly, there continues to be a hideous torrent of abuse towards trans people online and out in the world that is devastating.

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