hideousness
Shocking visual repugnance
Hideousness is the quality of being extremely ugly or repulsive.
The word applies to physical appearance but extends readily to actions, ideas, or situations that provoke disgust or horror: the hideousness of the crime, the hideousness of war.
Where ugliness is mild, hideousness suggests something that shocks or disturbs.
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
- chillingCausing fear or cold
bloodcurdling · frightening · terrifying · monstrous · fiendish · eldritch · freakish · mutant
Displeasing to look at
- unattractiveNot pleasing aesthetically
- unsightlyUnpleasant to look at
- disfiguredSpoiled in appearance
- deformedAbnormally shaped
misshapen · grotesque · ghastly · repugnant · unappealing · distorted · foul · abominable
Loathsome, detestable thing
- loathsomeArousing intense disgust
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- odiousExtremely unpleasant, repellent
- execrableExtremely bad, despicable
depravity · wickedness · vile · monstrous · atrocity · heinous · despicable · reprehensible
Intense physical aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- repulsionDisgust or pushing-away force
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
nausea · aversion · distaste · repugnance · sickening · offensiveness · repellence · stomach-turning
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- ghoulishFascinated by death grotesquely
- nightmarishFrightening like bad dreams
chilling · bloodcurdling · frightening · terrifying · monstrous · fiendish · eldritch · freakish · mutant · beastly
ugly
Displeasing to look at
- unattractiveNot pleasing aesthetically
- unsightlyUnpleasant to look at
- disfiguredSpoiled in appearance
deformed · misshapen · grotesque · ghastly · repugnant · unappealing · distorted · foul · abominable · unlovely
abomination
Loathsome, detestable thing
execrable · depravity · wickedness · vile · monstrous · atrocity · heinous · despicable · reprehensible · abhorrent
disgust
Intense physical aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- repulsionDisgust or pushing-away force
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
loathing · nausea · aversion · distaste · repugnance · sickening · offensiveness · repellence · stomach-turning · vile
- monstrositiesmonstrosity, monster, freak, abomination, grotesqueness
- grotesquegrotesquerie, grotesque, grotesquery, deformity, freaks
- uglinessugliness, unattractiveness, unsightliness, homeliness, repulsiveness
- horrorshorror, dread, terror, fright, dreadfulness
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
- disgustdisgust, disgusting, disgusted, revulsion, repulsion
hideousnessbeauty
Aesthetic excellence
loveliness · prettiness · handsomeness · gorgeousness · comeliness
hideousnessrighteousness
Moral correctness or virtue
virtuousness · goodness · nobility · graciousness · decency
hideousnessattractiveness
Pleasing quality that draws
appeal · charm · allurement · desirability · desirableness