hideously

1. 1.

   in a hideous manner

   “her face was hideously disfigured after the accident”

   Synonymshorridlymonstrously

Questions about hideously

What does hideously mean?

hideously means "in a hideous manner".

How many syllables are in hideously?

hideously has 4 syllables: hid-e-ou-sly. The stress falls on "hid". In IPA it is /ˈhɪdiəsli/.

What is another word for hideously?

Close synonyms include horridly, monstrously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hideously a common word?

hideously is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.