ADJECTIVE | all | ugly | displeasing to the senses |
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all | ugly, surly | inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | |
all | ugly, despicable, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched | morally reprehensible | |
all | ugly, atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible | provoking horror |
Sounds | ah'gliy | |
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Rhymes | ably ... zealously: 1543 rhymes with liy... |
Meaning | displeasing to the senses. | |
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Examples |
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Attribute of | beauty | The qualities that give pleasure to the senses |
Narrower | disfigured | Having the appearance spoiled |
evil-looking | Having an evil appearance | |
fugly | (slang) extremely ugly | |
grotesque, monstrous | distorted and unnatural in shape or size | |
hideous, repulsive | So extremely ugly as to be terrifying | |
ill-favored, ill-favoured | usually used of a face | |
scrofulous | Having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula | |
unlovely, unpicturesque | Without beauty or charm | |
unsightly | unpleasant to look at | |
See also | awkward | lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance |
displeasing | Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | |
unattractive | lacking beauty or charm | |
Opposite | beautiful | delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration |
Spanish | desagradable, feo, repugnante | |
Catalan | desagradable, lleig, repugnant | |
Nouns | ugliness | qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses |
Meaning | Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace. | |
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Example | "an ugly frame of mind" | |
Synonym | surly | |
Broader | ill-natured | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
Spanish | arisco, hosco, huraño | |
Catalan | eixut, esquerp, esquiu |
Meaning | morally reprehensible. | |
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Example | "ugly crimes" | |
Synonyms | despicable, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched | |
Broader | evil | morally bad or wrong |
Spanish | bajo, desdeñable, despreciable, ruin, vil | |
Catalan | baix, menyspreable, roí, vil | |
Nouns | ugliness | the quality of being wicked |
Meaning | Provoking horror. | |
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Example | "an ugly wound" | |
Synonyms | atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible | |
Broader | alarming | Frightening because of an awareness of danger |
Spanish | atroz, espantoso, horrendo, horrible, horripilante, horroroso | |
Catalan | atroç, esborronant, esgarrifós, espantós, horrible, hòrrid, horrorós |
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