hideaway, n. 1. hideout, hiding place, covert, coverture, cover, mew; nest, lair, den, cave, hole, dugout, abri; retreat, hospice, hermitage, cloister, ashram; shelter, refuge, asylum, haven, sanctuary, sanctum sanctorum, safety zone.
-adj. 2. hidden, concealed, disguised, camouflaged, covered-up. hidebound, adj. 1. narrow-minded, closed-minded, illiberal, intolerant; rigid, rigorous, stiff, firm, fixed, rooted, settled, creedbound; obstinate, obdurate, inexorable, unyielding, uncompromising, intractable.
2. ultraconservative, orthodox, fundamentalist, opposed to change; prudish, priggish, puritanical, prim, proper, stiff-necked, sanctimonious. hideous, adj. very ugly, grotesque, monstrous, ogre-ish, gorgonian, beastly; repulsive, offensive, repellent, revolting, SI. gross, disgusting, sickening, unsightly; horrible, frightful, frightening, dreadful, terrible, horrid, awful; shocking, outrageous, appalling, horrifying, gruesome, grisly, ghastly; heinous, hateful, odious, abominable, abhorrent; foul, vile, loathesome, despicable, contemptible, execrable, damnable. hiding, n. 1. concealment, secretion, hiding away; covering, screening, veiling, masking, shielding; clouding, obscuring.
2. hideaway, hiding place, hideout. See hideaway (def. 1). hie, v. hasten, hurry, go quickly or with haste, lose no time, speed, rush, Scot. swith; hustle, SI. get a move on, run, scamper, scuttle, dart, dash or dash off; take off, shoot, Inf. go like a shot, tear, SI rip, fly. See hasten (def 1). hierarchy, n. 1. system of layers or levels or strata, ranking, Inf. pecking or peck order; caste system, homogeneous grouping; separation, segregation, apartheid; Fig. ladder, Fig. totem pole.
2. ecclesiastical government, hierocracy, theocracy, episcopacy, prelacy, clericalism; (collectively) ecclesiastics, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, church dignitaries, prelates, primates, patriarchs.
3. officialdom, ruling body, upper class, elite, men at the top, inner circle, in-crowd, the high and the mighty, Inf higher-ups, Inf. heavyweights, Inf.
bigwigs.
hieratic, adj. priestly, sacerdotal, hieratical; clerical, ministerial, pastoral, ecclesiastical, churchly; sacred, divine, holy, consecrated. hieroglyphic, 1. hieroglyph, symbol, figure, ideogram, ideograph, rune, stenograph.
2. Usu. hieroglyphics hieroglyphic or hieratic writing, demotic writing.
3. hieroglyphics code, cipher, cryptograph, cryptogram, shorthand.
hierology, n. sacred literature, religious lore, Scrip
ture, hagiography, hagiology; theology, divinity. hierophant, n. 1. (in reference to sacred mysteries) expounder, expositor, explicator, explainer, interpreter, revealer, teacher.
2. divine, theologian, hierologist; exegete, Biblical scholar, textualist, Talmudist, Talmudic scholar; canonist, decretist.
3. clergyman, ecclesiastic, minister, priest, preacher, parson. higgle, v. bargain, haggle, palter, dicker. See haggle (def. 1).
high, adj. 1. lofty, tall, elevated, steep, soarirg,
towering.
2. intensified, intense, potent; sharp, strong, forcible, of great force, violent, vigorous; of great number,
of great degree, extreme, far advanced, remote, Music.