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”?
- A.dull and colorless
- B.very ugly
- C.slow to act
- D.stop
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.
- gorgeous
- dreadful
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