UGLY

atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly

(adjective) provoking horror; “an atrocious automobile accident”; “a frightful crime of decapitation”; “an alarming, even horrifying, picture”; “war is beyond all words horrible”- Winston Churchill; “an ugly wound”

ugly

(adjective) displeasing to the senses; “an ugly face”; “ugly furniture”

despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched

(adjective) morally reprehensible; “would do something as despicable as murder”; “ugly crimes”; “the vile development of slavery appalled them”; “a slimy little liar”

surly, ugly

(adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; “a surly waiter”; “an ugly frame of mind”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

ugly (comparative uglier, superlative ugliest)

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

Synonyms

• (displeasing to the eye): hideous, homely, repulsive, unattractive, uncomely, unsightly

• (displeasing to the ear or some other sense): displeasing, repulsive, unattractive

• (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality): corrupt, immoral, vile

• See also ugly

Antonyms

• (displeasing to the eye): attractive, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome, pretty, sightly

• (displeasing to the ear or some other sense): attractive, pleasing

• (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality): moral

Noun

ugly (countable and uncountable, plural uglies)

(slang, uncountable) Ugliness.

(slang) An ugly person or thing.

(UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.

Verb

ugly (third-person singular simple present uglies, present participle uglying, simple past and past participle uglied)

(transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).

Anagrams

• guly

Source: Wiktionary

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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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