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Definition of ugly:
- A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
- Ill- natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
- Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
- To make ugly.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
Synonyms:
foul, mess, like, handsome, unworthy, terrible, frightful, hideous, baleful, revolting, hard-featured, nasty, unspeakable, petulant, unseemly, unpicturesque, deplorable, wretched, violent, beautiful, turbulent, raging, sordid, horrid, querulous, attitude, wild, messy, piteous, nauseous, dreadful, tremendous, grievous, scrofulous, sickening, deformed, irritable, poor, menacing, abominable, nauseating, evil, filthy, appalling, tempestuous, forbidding, woeful, execrable, worthless, unwholesome, foul, misbegotten, disgusting, wicked, peevish, cross, ugliness, miserable, crabby, despicable, inaesthetic, fright, rugged, misfortunate, nice, pain, irascible, horrible, sorry, awful, painful, grouchy, roily, heavy, stormy, threatening, loathsome, unlovely, pathetic, ominous, waspish, unnatural, sinister, mean, grisly, pitiful, hapless, dirty, undeserving, disfigured, offensive, minacious, horrifying, dainty, uncomely, testy, dirty, slimy, rough, atrocious, vile, tumultuous, ill-favoured, monstrous, queasy, pitiable, repulsive, alarming, cantankerous, slimed, snappy, revolting, snappish, ill-natured, grumpy, minatory, misshapen, fretful, ill-tempered, crabbed, sight, unaesthetic, ill-favored, horrid, disgusting, noisome, cranky, bad-tempered, calm, flagitious, grotesque, fearful, nasty, monstrosity, unsightly, surly, suffering, roiled, beautiful.
- dangerous (part of speech: adjective)
- ugly (part of speech: adjective)
Usage examples:
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" Then I hope he won't find it as ugly a business as I do.
- "Tom Brown at Oxford", Thomas Hughes. -
" You must not mind a little rough riding, Kate, by the way," said Aubrey; " for we shall have to get over some ugly places!
- "Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1.", Samuel Warren. -
I know a girl who has been brought up as you have been thinks she knows something about the world, when in reality she knows nothing, anyhow, nothing that is ugly or real.
- "The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory", Margaret Vandercook.