Definition of ugly Ugly
/ʌˈgli/ - [uglee] - ug•ly
We found 20 definitions of ugly from 7 different sources.
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Adjectiveugly, uglier, ugliest |
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| ugly - displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" | ||
| beautiful delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party" | ||
| displeasing causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | ||
| unattractive lacking beauty or charm; "as unattractive as most mining regions" | ||
| awkward socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers" | ||
| beauty the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | ||
| disfigured having the appearance spoiled; "a disfigured face"; "strip mining left a disfigured landscape" | ||
| evil-looking having an evil appearance | ||
| fugly (slang) extremely ugly | ||
| grotesque, monstrous distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" | ||
| hideous, repulsive so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask" | ||
| ill-favored, ill-favoured usually used of a face; "an ill-favored countenance" | ||
| scrofulous having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat | ||
| unlovely, unpicturesque without beauty or charm | ||
| ugly - morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" | ||
| despicable, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched | ||
| evil morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" | ||
| ugly - inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" | ||
| surly | ||
| ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition | ||
| ugly - 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" | ||
| atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible | ||
| alarming frightening because of an awareness of danger | ||
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Wiktionary 
- ugly (Noun)
ugliness. - ugly (Noun)
An ugly person or thing. - ugly (Noun)
A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet. - ugly (Adjective)
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing. - ugly (Adjective)
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. - ugly (Adjective)
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ugly (superl.)
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. - ugly (superl.)
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. - ugly (superl.)
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. - ugly (n.)
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. - ugly (v. t.)
To make ugly.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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ugly
Not good looking. -
ugly
Morally reprehensible.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ugly
ug′li, adj. offensive to the eye: deformed: hateful: ill-natured: very severe, dangerous, as an ugly wound.—n. (coll.) an ugly person: a hood formerly worn by ladies as a shade for the eyes.—v.t. (rare) to make ugly.—n. Uglificā′tion.—v.t. Ug′lify, to make ugly.—adv. Ug′lily, in an ugly manner.—n. Ug′liness.—adj. Ug′some, hideous.—n. Ug′someness.—Ugly customer, a dangerous antagonist; Ugly man, the actual person who garrottes the victim in a confederacy of three, the others, the fore-stall and back-stall, covering his escape. [Ice. uggligr, frightful, uggr, fear; akin to Goth. ogan, A.S. oge, fear.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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ugly
A term applied to a threatening heavy atmosphere, also to a head-sea. Also, to an ugly craft, as a mischievous foe, or a pirate.
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