unbeautiful
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a word derived from
beautiful.
beautifuladjectivehaving beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind.
Example Sentences
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That’s why policymakers have parking lots in their sights: They are big and unbeautiful, and covering them with solar panels doesn’t take away from anything else.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
The alternative is to be irrelevant, unbeautiful, and therefore, unseen.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2018
The movie, though elegantly framed, favors the unbeautiful, and its landscapes are littered with rusty junk.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018
If my face became deformed, I’d go from being unbeautiful to pitiable.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2016
It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury.—But it could speak and make sense.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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