About The Word Ugly
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Ugly
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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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