Beautiful and Hideous

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Beautiful adjective – Very pleasing to look at.

Usage example: a strikingly beautiful child who is being eagerly pursued by all the modeling agencies

Nearby Words: beauty, beautifully, beauteous

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Hideous adjective – Unpleasant to look at.

Usage example: wearing a hideous Halloween mask that made the kids all jump with fright

Beautiful is an antonym for hideous in topics: ugly, grotesque.

Nearby Words: hide, hideously

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character	beautiful character	hideous character
baby	beautiful baby	hideous baby
man	beautiful man	hideous man
woman	beautiful woman	hideous woman
Other nouns: people, lady, body, race, men, creature, appearance, form, clothes, way, face, voice, version, women.

These masks can be beautiful or hideous, but usually within the realm of human expectation... except for the one element that's just wrong.

Source: Humanoid Abomination
Beauty Equals Goodness: Averted, as there are both beautiful and hideous people all along the morality spectrum.

Source: Film / Kingdom of Heaven
Deckard Cain describes her as simultaneously beautiful and hideous to look at.

Source: Spider People

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Hideous and Beautiful. (2016). Retrieved 2021, January 19, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beautiful/hideous

Beautiful & Hideous. N.p., 2016. Web. 19 Jan. 2021. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/beautiful/hideous>.

Hideous or Beautiful. 2016. Accessed January 19, 2021. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beautiful/hideous.

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