Ugly \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.
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The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser.
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Like the toad, ugly and venomous. --Shak.
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O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. --Shak.
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2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly
temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]
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3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss;
as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]
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Ugly \Ug"ly\, n.
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq.
Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
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Ugly \Ug"ly\, v. t.
To make ugly. [R.] --Richardson.
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ugly
adj 1: displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly
face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly" [ant: beautiful]
2: deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
3: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: surly]
4: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
appalled them" [syn: despicable, vile, unworthy]
5: 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" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious,
minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]
6: 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" [syn: atrocious, frightful,
horrifying, horrible]
[also: ugliest, uglier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "ugly":
abominable, alarming, awkward, bad, bad-tempered, base, bearish,
beautiless, bitchy, bitter, blemished, blotted, cacophonic,
cacophonous, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, corrupt, crabbed,
crabby, cranky, critical, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty,
cussed, dangerous, dangersome, debased, defaced, degenerate,
depraved, despicable, detestable, disadvantageous, disagreeable,
discomforting, disfigured, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing,
disquieting, distasteful, dysphemistic, dysphemized, evil,
excitable, execrable, explosive, feisty, filthy, foul, fractious,
fraught with danger, ghastly, grotesque, gruesome, hateful,
hazardous, heinous, hideous, homely, hostile, huffish, huffy,
ill-favored, ill-tempered, immoral, inelegant, irascible,
irritable, jeopardous, loathsome, marred, mean, menacing, mephitic,
nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious,
odious, offensive, ominous, ornery, parlous, periculous, perilous,
perverse, perverted, plain, repellent, repugnant, repulsive,
revolting, rotten, serious, short on looks, sickening, snappish,
sordid, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, spoiled, surly, testy,
thankless, threatening, troublesome, uglified, ugly as hell,
ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing,
unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, uncomfortable, undelectable,
undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unhandsome,
uninviting, unlikable, unlovely, unpalatable, unpleasant,
unpleasing, unprepossessing, unpretty, unsavory, unsightly,
untasteful, unwelcome, vile, waspish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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