UGLIED

Verb

uglied

simple past tense and past participle of ugly

Anagrams

• Gudiel, guiled

Source: Wiktionary


UGLY

Ug"ly, a. [Compar. Uglier; superl. Ugliest.] Etym: [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). Awe.]

1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]

3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]

Ug"ly, n.

Definition: A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

Ug"ly, v. t.

Definition: To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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