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
Loathsome is a synonym for hideous in repulsive topic. In some cases you can use "Loathsome" instead an adjective "Hideous", when it comes to topics like offensive, disgusting, odious, repugnant.
Loathsome
Loathsome adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.
Usage example: we traced the foul smell to a pile of loathsome garbage by the back wall
Hideous is a synonym for loathsome in repulsive topic. You can use "Hideous" instead an adjective "Loathsome", if it concerns topics such as disgusting, odious, hateful, repugnant.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- obnoxious and hideous
- obnoxious and loathsome
- repulsive and hideous
- repulsive and loathsome
- foul and hideous
- foul and loathsome
- offensive and hideous
- offensive and loathsome
- disgusting and hideous
- disgusting and loathsome
- repellent and hideous
- repellent and loathsome
- odious and hideous
- odious and loathsome
Both words in one sentence
- A hideous, disgusting, slimy, nasty, dripping, foul, stinking, oozing, loathsome...[realizes that he has a gelatinous cube in his own party]...er...
Source: Insult Friendly Fire - Nurgle, on the other hand, wants nothing more than for the entirety of the universe to decay away, and so his followers are blessed with loathsome diseases and hideous cancers... but as a side effect, their nerves are rotten away so they can't feel pain. Yay!
Source: Moral Sociopathy
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