hideously
恐ろしくも
解説 Definition
恐ろしく醜い、ぞっとするほどひどいさまを表す副詞。見た目や状況が非常に不快な程度に。
Hideously means in an extremely ugly, shocking, or frightening way. It is used to describe something that looks very unpleasant or seems terribly bad. The word is strong and often adds emotional force.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
hideously は hideous「ぞっとするほど醜い・ひどい」をそのまま副詞化した形。まず形容詞 hideous を核に置き、-ly が付くと「恐ろしくひどく」の意味で文全体の不快さを強めると覚える。ugly より嫌悪感が強く、見た目だけでなく hideously expensive, hideously wrong のように「ひどすぎる」全般にも使える。hide「隠す」とつづりが近いが別語なので切り分けると混同しにくい。
Build it from `hideous` + `-ly`. If `hideous` means extremely ugly or terrible, `hideously` adds that strong bad feeling to the whole sentence. It is stronger than `ugly`, and it often appears in phrases like `hideously expensive` or `hideously wrong`.
例文
The building had been hideously disfigured by years of neglect and vandalism.
その建物は何年もの放置と破壊行為によって恐ろしく損なわれていた。
The experiment went hideously wrong, resulting in a laboratory evacuation.
実験は恐ろしいほどうまくいかず、研究室からの避難が行われた。
The villain was hideously scarred, adding to his menacing appearance.
その悪役は恐ろしく傷跡があり、威圧的な外見をさらに際立たせていた。
hideously の類義語・関連語
hideously の語源・成り立ち Etymology
hideously は古フランス語由来の hideous に副詞語尾 -ly が付いた形です。hideous は語根分解しにくい一語で、「見てぞっとする」という嫌悪感を丸ごと運びます。hideousness も同じ語幹で、恐ろしさがそのまま様子を表すと分かります。
Hideously is built from hideous and the adverb ending -ly. Hideous came into English from Old French and carried a strong sense of something shocking or dreadful to look at. Over time, hideously came to describe doing something in a very horrible or ugly way. The related noun hideousness keeps the same root.
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