ugly
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (4)uglier, ugliest
- displeasing to the senses“an ugly face”“ugly furniture”Opposite beautifulSimilar grotesque, hideous, unlovely, disfigured, off fleek, evil-looking, fugly, ill-favored +3 moreRelates to beautySee also unattractive, awkward, displeasing
- inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace“a surly waiter”“an ugly frame of mind”Synonyms: surlyOpposite good-naturedSimilar ill-natured
- morally reprehensible“would do something as despicable as murder”“ugly crimes”“the vile development of slavery appalled them”“a slimy little liar”Synonyms: despicablevileslimyunworthyworthlesswretchedOpposite goodSimilar evil
- 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”Synonyms: atrociousfrightfulhorrifyinghorribleOpposite unalarmingSimilar alarming
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Translations
Adjective displeasing to the eye
- Spanish
- feo
- French
- laid
- German
- hässlich
- Italian
- brutto
- Portuguese
- feio
- Turkish
- çirkin
- Russian
- уро́дливый uródlivyj
- Arabic
- قَبِيح qabīḥ
- Chinese
- 丑 chǒu
- Japanese
- 醜い minikui
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- Dutch
- lelijk
- Polish
- brzydki
- Swedish
- ful
- Greek
- άσχημος áschimos
- Korean
- 못생기다 motsaenggida
- Indonesian
- jelek
- Vietnamese
- xấu xí
- Hungarian
- csúnya
- Portuguese (PT)
- feio
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 醜 chǒu
- Albanian
- i shëmtuar
- Breton
- divalav
- Catalan
- lleig
- Czech
- ošklivý
- Danish
- grim
- Esperanto
- malbela
- Estonian
- kole
- Finnish
- ruma
- Georgian
- უშნო ušno
- Hebrew
- מְכֹעָר mekhoár
- Icelandic
- ljótur
- Kurdish
- kirêt
- Latvian
- neglīts
- Lithuanian
- negražus
- Malagasy
- ratsy tarehy
- Norwegian
- stygg
- Romanian
- urât
- Scottish Gaelic
- grànnda
- Serbo-Croatian
- ružan
- Slovak
- škaredý
- Slovenian
- grd
- Swahili
- -baya
- Walloon
- laid
- Welsh
- hyll
- Yiddish
- מיאוס mies
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). …. Cf. 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.— Edmund Spenser
Like the toad, ugly and venomous.— William Shakespeare
O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.— William Shakespeare
2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. colloquial (US)
3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. colloquial
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. colloquial (British) Charles Kingsley
To make ugly. rare Samuel Richardson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54