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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, exhausting |
| Synonyms: | Herculean, arduous, backbreaking, bothersome, burdensome, complicated, demanding, difficile, distressing, effortful, exacting, fatiguing, formidable, grinding, hairy*, heavy*, intricate, involved, irksome, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, merciless, murder, onerous, operose, rigorous, rough, rugged, scabrous, serious, severe, slavish, sticky, strenuous, terrible, tiring, toilful, toilsome, tough, troublesome, unsparing, uphill battle, uphill, wearing, wearisome, wearying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, mild, simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hideous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grotesque, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abominable, animal, appalling, awful, beast, bestial, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, horrendous, horrid, loathsome, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, odious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, ugly, uncomely, unsightly, weird |
| Antonyms: | attractive, beautiful, charming, delightful, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible/horrendous/horrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, very unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, magnificent, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | Gordian, baffling, complex, complicated, difficult, effortful, elaborate, formidable, hard, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, mystifying, nodulous, perplexing, problematical, puzzling, ramified, reticular, rough, rugged, sophisticated, sticky*, terrible, thorny, tough, tricky, uphill |
| Antonyms: | simple, uncomplicated, untroublesome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lousy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | awful, base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, disliked, execrable, faulty, harmful, hateful, horrible, inferior, low, mean, miserable, no good, outrageous, poor, rotten, second-rate, shoddy, slovenly, terrible, unpopular, unwelcome, vicious, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, great, magnificent, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | lurid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shocking, gruesome |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bloody, deep, disgusting, distinct, exaggerated, extreme, fiery, ghastly, gory, graphic, grim, grisly, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, livid, low-down, macabre, melodramatic, obscene, off-color, offensive, purple*, racy, raunchy, revolting, rough, salty, sanguine*, savage, sensational, sinister, startling, terrible, terrifying, violent, vivid, yellow* |
| Notes: | lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious |
| Antonyms: | clean, humble, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | macabre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eerie; deathlike |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, morbid, offensive, scary, spookish, spooky, terrible, unearthly, weird |
| Notes: | macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror; bizarre means odd or unusual |
| Antonyms: | common, living, normal |
| Main Entry: | memorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noteworthy, significant |
| Synonyms: | A-1, big-league, bodacious, catchy, celebrated, critical, crucial, decisive, distinguished, doozie, enduring, eventful, extraordinary, famous, great, heavy*, heavyweight, historic, hot*, illustrious, important, impressive, indelible, interesting, lasting, major-league, meaningful, mind-blowing*, momentous, monumental, notable, observable, red-letter, remarkable, rememberable, rubric, serious, signal, something, standout, striking, super, surpassing, terrible, terrific, top-drawer, unforgettable |
| Antonyms: | forgettable, insignificant, unimpressive, unnoteworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | monstrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unnatural, shocking |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, atrocious, cruel, desperate, devilish, diabolical, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, freakish, frightful, grotesque, gruesome, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, infamous, inhuman, intolerable, loathsome, macabre, miscreated, morbid, obscene, odious, ominous, outrageous, preposterous, rank, satanic, scandalous, teratoid, terrible, uncanny, unusual, vicious, villainous |
| Antonyms: | average, common, expected, natural, ordinary, standard |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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