Elementary SSAT vocabulary

hideous

adjective

Very ugly or awful to look at.

Closest meaning

very ugly

Examples

  • The hideous costume made everyone laugh at the school play.
  • A hideous bug crawled across our sunny picnic blanket.
  • Dad painted the kitchen a hideous shade of green.

Try a practice question

Which is closest in meaning to “hideous”?

  1. A.amount of matter
  2. B.very ugly
  3. C.material that takes up space
  4. D.put off until later
Show the answer

B. very ugly — hideous means “Very ugly or awful to look at.”

Easy to mix up

Words close to hideous in meaning or spelling.

Practice words like this, free

About 15 minutes a day. Starflight skips the words your child already knows, reads every word aloud, and brings each word back right before it would be forgotten.

Start free with Google

A parent or guardian signs in with their own Google account.

v0.18.0