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Ugly

Ugly Meaning & Definition
Ugly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ugly?

[adj] deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
[adj] 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"
[adj] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
[adj] displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly"
[adj] morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"
[adj] inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ugly: alarming | atrocious | baleful | despicable | disfigured | evil | forbidding | frightful | grotesque | hideous | horrible | horrifying | ill-favored | ill-favoured | ill-natured | inaesthetic | menacing | minacious | minatory | monstrous | ominous | repulsive | scrofulous | sinister | surly | threatening | unaesthetic | unlovely | unnatural | unpicturesque | unsightly | unworthy | vile | wicked

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ugly:

See Also | awkward | displeasing | unattractive

Ugly In Webster's Dictionary

\Ug"ly\, a. [Compar. {Uglier}; superl. {Ugliest}.] [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. --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. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
\Ug"ly\, v. t. To make ugly. [R.] --Richardson.

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