Attractive and Hideous

Attractive

Attractive adjective - Having an often mysterious or magical power to attract.
Usage example: world travel has always been very attractive to me

Hideous is an antonym for attractive.

Hideous

Hideous adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.
Usage example: the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing

Attractive is an antonym for hideous in grotesque topic.

Nearby Words: hide, hideously

Both words in one sentence

  • Adaptational Attractiveness Similarly, Fiona, in both her human and ogre forms, is more attractive than the hideous princess from the book.
  • Game Face Eventually despite her warnings he insists that she reveal her real face — instead of the hideous demon he expects, she turns out she's a Half-Human Hybrid that he actually finds rather attractive.
    Source: Game Face
  • Webcomic / Something*Positive Despite supposedly being hideous, Davan has slept with about five or six attractive women in nine years, two of them very regularly — not a bad run.
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