GRE Word List
HIDEOUS
offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly
The meaning of the word hideous is offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |