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Definition of ugliness :
The quality or state of being ugly.
Synonyms:
wickedness, frightfulness, fearfulness, ill-favored countenance, sliminess, loathsomeness, horridness, nefariousness, lousiness, beautiful, bad looks, vileness, immorality, mliness, fright, mess, deformity, ill looks, dark, disfigurement, darkness, offensiveness, monstrousness, un, uncomeliness, foulness, unloveliness, sin, sight, monstrosity, iniquity, sinfulness, grim aspect, ugly, evil
ugliness (part of speech: noun)
disagreeableness, shapelessness, hideousness, plainness, homeliness, inelegance, unsightliness, repugnant, odiousness, repulsiveness, abhorrence, displeasingness, grotesqueness
Usage examples:
- But from the risk and even the edge of ugliness it was saved by a pair of grey eyes, keen, humorous, and kindly, and a smile that showed the eyes at their best. - "The Castle Inn", Stanley John Weyman.
- The " children of the sun" cannot admit the miseries and ugliness of daily life. - "Contemporary Russian Novelists", Serge Persky.
- The custom of presenting the Jack- knife is one of the most amusing of those which have come down to us from the past, and if any conclusion may be drawn from the interest which is now manifested in its observance, it is safe to infer, in the words of the poet, that it will continue " Till time and ugliness shall end." - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.