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ugly
[ uhg-lee ]
adjective
- very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
Synonyms: uncomely, homely, unlovely, unsightly, hard-featured, ill-favored
Antonyms: beautiful
- disagreeable; unpleasant; objectionable:
ugly tricks;
ugly discords.
- morally revolting:
ugly crime.
- threatening trouble or danger:
ugly symptoms.
Synonyms: ominous, disadvantageous
- mean; hostile; quarrelsome:
an ugly mood;
an ugly frame of mind.
- (especially of natural phenomena) unpleasant or dangerous:
ugly weather;
an ugly sea.
Synonyms: tempestuous, stormy
ugly
/ ˈʌɡlɪ /
adjective
- of unpleasant or unsightly appearance
- repulsive, objectionable, or displeasing in any way
war is ugly
- ominous or menacing
an ugly situation
- bad-tempered, angry, or sullen
an ugly mood
Derived Forms
- ˈuglily, adverb
- ˈugliness, noun
Other Words From
- ugli·ly adverb
- ugli·ness noun
- super·ugly adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ugly1
Idioms and Phrases
- rear its ugly head
Example Sentences
You can’t have it both ways — call us and we come to do our job, but then if our job gets ugly, we’re the bad guys.
We’re not sitting here in 10 years talking about this partisanship that is so ugly in this country.
The coronavirus is the immediate cause, as it has severely disrupted societies globally and brought with it isolation and death, while laying bare the ugly side of governments, companies and leaders.
Depending on your taste, the monster group is either the prettiest or the ugliest object in all mathematics.
We’re living through what Yang calls “a war on normal people” — a war that Yang fears is getting uglier all the time.
Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.
Of those, 1,980 used the term “cute”, while just 12 mentioned the word “ugly”.
Two seasons ago, the show killed off its main romantic interest, Matthew Crawley, in an ugly car accident.
How could you take such ugly pictures of a beautiful place?
After mom cries out in anguish and frustration on hearing the verdict, the ugly side of the protests rears its head.
A gentleman expatiating upon the good looks of women, declared that he had never yet seen an ugly woman.
One Turkish Company, about a hundred strong, was making an ugly push within rifle shot of our ship.
She looked Mariequita up and down, from her ugly brown toes to her pretty black eyes, and back again.
I was perfectly amazed to see how many little ugly habits I had to correct of which I had not been the least aware.
He would at once become stubborn and ugly, because he is not used to our quick, nervous, impatient ways.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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