1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous and hideous spectacle." Macaulay.
2. Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise. "Hideous cries." Shak.
3. Hateful; shocking. "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." Shak.
Syn.
— Frightful; ghastly; grim; grisly; horrid; dreadful; terrible.
— Hid"e*ous*ly, adv.
— Hid"e*ous*ness, n.
HIDER
Hid"er, n.
Defn: One who hides or conceals.
HIDING
Hid"ing, n.
Defn: The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4.
HIDING
Hid"ing, n.
Defn: A flogging. [Colloq.] Charles Reade.