词汇 | hideous |
释义 | hideous adjective uk /ˈhɪd.i.əs/ us /ˈhɪd.i.əs/ extremely ugly or bad: 极丑的;极坏的 They've just built some hideous new apartment blocks on the seafront.他们刚在滨海区建了一些极为难看的新公寓大楼。 She wears the most hideous colour combinations you could ever imagine.她穿着你能想象到的颜色搭配得最难看的衣服。 Synonyms ghastlyUKinformal grim(UNPLEASANT)informal grotesque(UGLY) ugly(NOT ATTRACTIVE) unattractive unprepossessing unsightlyformal Not attractive to look at back end be no oil paintingidiom be not much to look atidiom bleakly bleakness gopping gracelessly have a face like the back end of a busidiom hideousness homeliness putridly reptilian scrappily scrappy stolid unpretty unshapely unsightly vulgarity vulgarly Related wordhideousness hideous | American Dictionaryhideous adjective us/ˈhɪd·i·əs/ offensive, extremely ugly, or shocking: The bathroom was pink and green and silver – it was absolutely hideous. Examples of hideoushideous She is forced to acknowledge the hypocrisy of a father who concealed 'the hideous mystery' regarding the mills that generated all his wealth. Their crime is discovered by a piece of hideous bad luck. This hideous event is obviously in large measure the consequence of human agency. These are dramatic genetic disorders that typically cause early death by hideous pathology. A right turn, however, led into a hideous maze of semantic dead ends. Haven't you seen how hideous the demoness looks? They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. Now, life gushed into the dust; now, organised matter combined, and suddenly stood in front of the throne - the hideous camel. For rather than providing a wholesale endorsement of the interests of the state, the poem hinges on the rejection of a "hideous blunder" made by an official military institution. Why truncate it in this hideous fashion? He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth. Does he not agree that, to put the matter very kindly indeed, these edifices are at the very least hideous, impractical and expensive? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It had all those other things—valves, hideous enclosures, concrete posts and wire netting, telephone wires going to little huts, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there no possibility of distributing electricity without covering the whole country with these hideous pylons? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is an appalling prospect, and a hideous responsibility would descend on the shoulders of anyone who connived at or accepted such a proposal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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