hideous

adj

1. Extremely or shockingly ugly.

   “I’m sorry to break it to you, but your dress looks truly hideous.”

   “the Duke's army departed unmolested : but the highway along which he retired presented a piteous and hideous spectacle.”

   “Like the "Kas," these locomotives were originally semi-streamlined, although their conical snout was not nearly so hideous as the sloping mock-radiators adorning the bigger engines.”

2. Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.

   “He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.”

3. Hateful; shocking.

   “[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?”

   “Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver.”

4. Morally offensive; shocking; detestable.

   “when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah’s head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.”