Ugly
Pronunciation of Ugly
/ˈʌɡli/, /ˈʌɡli/, /ˈʌ_ɡ_l_i/
Synonyms for ugly:
Sense 1
unflattering, Hard-featured, yucky, twee, monstrosity, Minging, Charmless, chi-chi, unlovable, ornamental, plug-ugly, hulking, unprepossessing, bad-tempered.
Sense 2
querulous, irascible, roiled, graceful, ill-tempered, dangerous, turbulent, cranky, disgusting, revolting, unbecoming, severely, cantankerous, graceless, grouchy, sexless, waspish, snappish, fretful, sordid, irritable, petulant, showy, raging, grumpy, tempestuous, crabby, tasteless.
Sense 3
tumultuous, crabbed, ugliness, testy, roily, stormy, horrid.
Sense 4
nasty, foul, peevish, fright, dirty.
Sense 5
Sense 6
Sense 7
Sense 9
look at.
Sense 10
wild.
Sense 11
distorted
engaging
awful (adjective)
cheap (adjective)
dangerous, threatening (adjective)
grievous, sinister, ominous, forbidding, crabby, surly, rough, violent, menacing, disagreeable, evil, crabbed, obnoxious, cantankerous.
pleasing (adjective)
rough (adjective)
threatening (adjective)
ugly (adjective)
unpleasant, odious, displeasing, unappealing, shapeless, unpleasing, inelegant, repellent, undesirable, repugnant, unaesthetic, homely, unattractive, hideous, unlovely, abhorrent, disagreeable, unsightly, grotesque, Ill-looking, repulsive, disfigured, plain.
unattractive (adjective)
repugnant, deformed, Hard-featured, monstrous, gross, ill-favored, homely, revolting, unprepossessing, hideous, repulsive, loathsome, appalling, foul, frightful, unlovely, disfigured, horrid, grotesque, unsightly, awful, plain.
unpleasant, disagreeable (adjective)
sordid, repellent, despicable, disgusting, wretched, terrible, nauseous, sickening, shocking, wicked, odious, distasteful, noisome, vile, nasty, offensive, scandalous, dirty.
wicked (adjective)
Sense 2 (noun)
Sense 4 (noun)
unwholesome, disgusting, horrid, nasty.
Sense 6 (noun)
querulous, irascible, bad-tempered, crabbed, waspish, snappish, fretful, petulant, peevish, testy, grumpy, crabby, grouchy, snappy, cranky, ill-tempered, irritable, cantankerous.
Sense 7 (noun)
sight, mess, ugliness, monstrosity, fright.
ugly (noun)
repulsive, horrible, unaesthetic, disfigured, hideous, inaesthetic, grotesque, ill-favoured, unsightly, alarming, surly, threatening, horrifying, frightful, minacious, menacing, sinister, ominous, ill-favored, scrofulous, unworthy, unnatural, minatory, baleful, evil, unlovely, unpicturesque, monstrous, forbidding, vile, atrocious, ill-natured, wicked, despicable.
Usage examples for ugly:
- If I were ugly, people would pity you, and you wouldn't be able to stand that. - "Bedside Manner", William Morrison.
- Martin stared an instant and broke into a short, ugly laugh. - "The Locusts' Years", Mary Helen Fee.
- I don't think he'd be half so ugly to you if it were not for that. - "Judith of the Godless Valley", Honoré Willsie.