ugly
Plural: uglies
Adjective
- Displeasing to the sight or senses; unattractive.
- displeasing to the senses
- "an ugly face"
- "ugly furniture"
Adjective Satellite
- inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
- "an ugly frame of mind"
- morally reprehensible
- "ugly crimes"
- provoking horror; ; ; ; - Winston Churchill
- "an ugly wound"
Adj
- Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
- Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
- Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
- Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
Noun
- An ugly person or thing; something unappealing.
- Ugliness.
- An ugly person or thing.
- Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
Verb
- To make ugly (sometimes with up).
Examples
- an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound
- an ugly temper; to feel ugly
- An ugly tile distribution meant he’d have to get creative with his word choices.
- He had to play an ugly word, just to get rid of his awkward tile combination.
- He played an ugly trick on us.
- With all this competition, expect things to get ugly.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”), from uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”) (possibly related to agg (“strife, hate”)), equivalent to ug + -ly. Cognate with Scots ugly, uglie, Icelandic ugglegur. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.
For the meaning development compare Bulgarian грозен (grozen) (< Proto-Slavic *grozьnъ), Russian стра́шный (strášnyj) (< Proto-Slavic *strašьnъ < *straxъ); Latin foedus (< Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂-).
Synonyms
atrocious, despicable, frightful, horrible, horrifying, slimy, surly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, bad, beat, butt-ugly, butters, clapped, corrupt, coyote ugly, deform, displeasing, fuckfaced, fugly, hideous, homely, immoral, like the back end of a bus, plug-ugly, repulsive, ugly, ugly as sin, unattractive, uncomely, unpretty, unsightly
Antonyms
beautiful, attractive, comely, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, moral, nice, pleasing, pretty, sightly
Scrabble Score: 8
ugly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordugly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ugly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary