NDA (I) 2024 General Ability Test · Question 4 of 146

Correct — B, beautiful. 'Hideous' means extremely ugly or repulsive to look at, so its opposite is 'beautiful' — pleasing and attractive to the eye. The other options stay on the ugly/horrifying side: 'appalling' (shocking, dreadful), 'grotesque' (distorted and ugly) and 'macabre' (gruesome, suggesting death) are all near-synonyms of hideous rather than opposites.

• (a)appalling — Means shocking or dreadful; it shares hideous's strongly negative sense and is not an opposite.
• (c)grotesque — Means comically or repulsively distorted and ugly; a near-synonym of hideous.
• (d)macabre — Means gruesome and disturbing, often linked to death; negative like hideous, not its reverse.

This is an antonym item — 'hideous' means extremely ugly, so the answer is 'beautiful'; appalling, grotesque and macabre are all synonyms on the ugly/horrifying side.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Select the word opposite in meaning to 'repulsive'.

  • (a)revolting
  • (b)attractive
  • (c)repugnant
  • (d)loathsome

  Answer(b) attractive — 'repulsive' means causing disgust; 'attractive' is its opposite (the others are synonyms).

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the antonym of 'grotesque'.

  • (a)distorted
  • (b)monstrous
  • (c)graceful
  • (d)bizarre

  Answer(c) graceful — 'grotesque' means distorted/ugly; 'graceful' (elegant) is its opposite.