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For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
Jane Gardam

Meaning of "hideously" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIDEOUSLY

hideously  [ˈhɪdɪəslɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIDEOUSLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hideously is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES HIDEOUSLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hideously in the English dictionary

The definition of hideously in the dictionary is used to emphasize that something is extremely ugly or unattractive. Other definition of hideously is used to emphasize that something is very unpleasant or unacceptable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIDEOUSLY


commodiously
kəˈməʊdɪəslɪ
compendiously
kəmˈpendɪəslɪ
deviously
ˈdiːvɪəslɪ
discommodiously
ˌdɪskəˈməʊdɪəslɪ
fastidiously
fæˈstɪdɪəslɪ
fiercely
ˈfɪəslɪ
hilariously
hɪˈlɛərɪəslɪ
incommodiously
ˌɪnkəˈməʊdɪəslɪ
insidiously
ɪnˈsɪdɪəslɪ
invidiously
ɪnˈvɪdɪəslɪ
melodiously
mɪˈləʊdɪəslɪ
obviously
ˈɒbvɪəslɪ
odiously
ˈəʊdɪəslɪ
perfidiously
pɜːˈfɪdɪəslɪ
previously
ˈpriːvɪəslɪ
seriously
ˈsɪərɪəslɪ
simultaneously
ˌsɪməlˈteɪnɪəslɪ
spontaneously
spɒnˈteɪnɪəslɪ
studiously
ˈstjuːdɪəslɪ
tediously
ˈtiːdɪəslɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIDEOUSLY

hidder
hide
hide one´s light under a bushel
hide-and-go-seek
hide-and-seek
hideaway
hidebound
hideless
hideosity
hideous
hideousness
hideout
hider
hidey-hole
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
hiding
hiding place
hidling
hidlings
hidrosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIDEOUSLY

anonymously
cautiously
consciously
continuously
dangerously
deliciously
enormously
famously
furiously
generously
graciously
marvellously
meticulously
mysteriously
notoriously
outrageously
ridiculously
tremendously
unanimously
unconsciously
vigorously

Synonyms and antonyms of hideously in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hideously» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIDEOUSLY

Find out the translation of hideously to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hideously from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hideously» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

可怕地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

horriblemente
570 millions of speakers

English

hideously
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hideously
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مخيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ужасно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tremendamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নৃশংসভবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hideusement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Teruk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

furchtbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ひどく
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소름끼치게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angel banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hideously
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயங்கரமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुप्रसिद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iğrenç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orribilmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ohydnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жахливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hidos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φριχτά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vreeslik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hideously
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hideously
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hideously

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIDEOUSLY»

The term «hideously» is regularly used and occupies the 102.907 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIDEOUSLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hideously

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8 QUOTES WITH «HIDEOUSLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hideously.
1
Bob Balaban
Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
2
Richard Dawkins
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
3
Jane Gardam
For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
4
Jason Isaacs
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.
5
Jason Isaacs
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.
6
Laurie Metcalf
I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
7
Sean Pertwee
I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
8
Carrie Snow
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIDEOUSLY»

Discover the use of hideously in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hideously and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Understanding David Foster Wallace
embodies the latter, for she wears a veil over her face at all times, a visible emblem of her membership to something called the Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed (533). The narrative is unclear— or perhaps deliberately ...
Marshall Boswell, 2003
2
American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque
Chapter. i. Gargoyles,. Grotesques,. and. Marginalia: The. Hideously. Beautiful,. Beautifully. Hideous. Art. of. Flannery. O'Connor. If you judge [the] Gothic bv Grecian rules, vou will find nothing but deformitv, but when you examine it by its own ...
Anthony Di Renzo, 1995
3
2005, Blogged: Dispatches from the Blogosphere
6June <ED> There was a certain amount of notice (as above) taken of the fact that the Live 8 line up was lacking in a certain measure of racial diversity... ' hideously white' according to one commentator. The Joy of Curmudgeonry realised that ...
Tim Worstall, 2005
4
Stay With Me
"I was hideously miserable there." This is Clare's favorite thing to say about herself. Hideously miserable in college. Loved law school, but hideously miserable during her two years at the law firm. Madly in love with Elias (the vile example of ...
Garret Freymann-Weyr, 2007
5
Fraser's Magazine
... to affect the character. The next sentence deserves no remark : it is taken from a story of Dumont's, at which we shall laugh hereafter. I approach the last :— “ Like Wilkes, he was hideously ugly; like Wilkes, he made a jest of his own ugliness ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1833
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Fraser's Magazine
But now, really if he were, like Wilkes, hideously ugly, he was not, like Wilkes, ugly hideously ; and if he made a jest of his ugliness, there was nothing joyous in it : for although he really suffered little from his ill- favouredness, yet would he fain  ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle, 1833
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
But now, really if he were, like Wilkes, hideously ugly, he was not, like Wilkes, ugly hideously; and if he made a jest of his ugliness, there was nothing joyous in it : for although he really suffered little from his ill— favouredness, yet would he fain ...
‎1833
8
Tort Law Directions
Ridicule. The question of whether it was defamatory to say that a man was ' hideously ugly' was considered by the Court of Appeal in Berkoffv Burchil/(1996). Stephen Berkoff, an actor and film director, argued that ...
Vera Bermingham, Carol Brennan, 2012
9
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Is this "hideously unfair" — to use a phrase of Williams (1981, p. 228) — or is this bound to lead to something hideously unfair? Not necessarily. Imagine a footrace in which the starting line was staggered: those with birthdays in January start a ...
Daniel Clement Dennett, 1984
10
The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are ...
Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket ... Mrs. Inchbald. hideously pale ! like a witch ! — This is the old lady's glass, and she has left some of IKT wrinkles on it. — How frightfully have I put on my cap ...
Mrs. Inchbald, 1808

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIDEOUSLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hideously is used in the context of the following news items.
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One Of The Most Brutal UFC Fights I've Seen In Ages - TMI - Kotaku
It was hideously, beautifully pure. One Of The Most Brutal UFC Fights I've Seen In Ages. Minutes later, it all came crashing down. MacDonald's ... «Kotaku, Jul 15»
2
Review: Max Beerbohm, 'The Prince of Minor Writers' and a Gentle …
About the arriving restaurant bill, he says: “I wished always it were not brought to me folded on a plate, as though the amount were so hideously ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Septum rings - the craze you won't want your daughter to follow this …
Your parents, family and friends may think it looks hideously bovine, but you think it looks fabulous. But then I ran into a woman who also had ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Still wishing I hadn't missed the '60s - Hartford Courant
We wore hideously patterned Huk-A-Poo shirts. These synthetic garments had patterns so loud they could be heard over the roar of a 1972 ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 15»
5
Wait, Does 2005's 'Fantastic Four' End With a Shot of Doctor Doom's …
In this version of Fantastic Four, the team's arch-enemy, Victor Von Doom, is not the hideously scarred monarch of a fictional Eastern European ... «ScreenCrush, Jul 15»
6
The battle against Shenhua ramps up: Koalas vs Coal incites civil …
However, further adding to Shenhua's problems with this hideously unpopular mine is that it is already in court at state level. For the mine to ... «Independent Australia, Jul 15»
7
Wake Up Call: Star Dewey Witness Testifies About Email | Big Law …
All types of lawyers stand to profit if the “hideously complex” six-state nuclear deal with Iran gets approved and goes into effect. The 159-page ... «Bloomberg Big Law Business, Jul 15»
8
Company hits back in Telscombe Cliffs 'blue shed' row (From The …
Residents, who Mr Claxton said felt the building was a "monster" which was "hideously dominating," are instead speaking to councillors at a ... «The Argus, Jul 15»
9
Bolton does not want any organised armed robbers to laud it over …
Facing a hammer, knife, machete, iron bar or other hideously awful weapon must be utterly terrifying. I hope the Bolton CID is being as well resourced as ... «The Bolton News, Jul 15»
10
Company hits back at blue shed objections
Residents, who Mr Claxton said felt the building was a "monster" which was "hideously dominating," are instead speaking to councillors at a meeting and making ... «The Argus, Jul 15»

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