| 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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| 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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