Qualities
Synonyms for hideous
Synonyms for hideous: outrageous and repulsive. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for hideous
- outrageousadjective, in the sense "grossly offensive to decency or morality"
- repulsiveadjective, in the sense "so extremely ugly as to be terrifying"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of hideous, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
grossly offensive to decency or morality
A hideous pattern of injustice.
The true synonym
outrageous
Same sentence, swapped: A outrageous pattern of injustice.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where hideous stands in the sentence above.
- grim
- terrifying
- tremendous
so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
A hideous scar.
The true synonym
repulsive
Same sentence, swapped: A repulsive scar.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- grim
- terrifying
- tremendous
Where hideous turns up in the game
hideous is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where hideous is the trap
- outrageousadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is steep, in the sense "greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation", so hideous is there to be ruled out.
Play hideous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hideous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
hideous is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.