What are some opposite words for beautiful?
Antonyms for beautiful
ˈbyu tə fəlbeau·ti·ful
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term beautiful.
Wiktionary
beautifuladjective
Attractive and possessing charm.
Synonyms:
perfect, excellent, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, stylish, good, great, marvelousbeautifuladjective
pleasant; clear.
It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
Synonyms:
wonderful, great, stylish, perfect, good, excellent, marvelous, marvellous, exceptionalbeautifuladjective
well executed
The skater performed a beautiful axel.
Antonyms:
shoddy, average, poor, bad, mediocre, terrible, substandard, weakSynonyms:
good, stylish, marvellous, exceptional, excellent, marvelous, great, wonderful, perfectbeautifuladjective
(as a pro-sentence) How beautiful that is!
Beautiful! What a catch! (referring to an athlete catching a ball)
Synonyms:
wonderful, good, marvellous, excellent, perfect, marvelous, exceptional, great, stylishbeautifuladjective
(as a pro-sentence; ironic) How unfortunate that is!
Beautiful! I dropped the soup on the floor!
Synonyms:
perfect, good, marvellous, great, stylish, exceptional, wonderful, marvelous, excellentbeautifuladjective
Antonyms:
ugly, misshapen, repulsive, plain, grotesque, homely, hideousSynonyms:
beauteous, cute, hot, handsome, gorgeous, lovely, attractive, shapely, pretty, nice-looking, fair, good-looking, fit, sheenbeautifuladjective
beautifuladjective
Synonyms:
marvellous, great, nice, just, bloody, intensifier, marvelous, damned, wonderful
English Synonyms and Antonyms
beautiful
The definition of beauty, "perfection of form," is a good key to the meaning of beautiful, if we understand "form" in its widest sense. There must also be harmony and unity, and in human beings spiritual loveliness, to constitute an object or a person really beautiful. Thus, we speak of a beautiful landscape, a beautiful poem. But beautiful implies also, in concrete objects, softness of outline and delicacy of mold; it is opposed to all that is hard and rugged, hence we say a beautiful woman, but not a beautiful man. Beautiful has the further limit of not transcending our powers of appreciation. Pretty expresses in a far less degree that which is pleasing to a refined taste in objects comparatively small, slight, and dainty; as, a pretty bonnet; a pretty girl. That is handsome which is not only superficially pleasing, but well and harmoniously proportioned, with usually the added idea that it is made so by art, breeding, or training; as, a handsome horse; a handsome house. Handsome is a term far inferior to beautiful; we may even say a handsome villain. Fair denotes what is bright, smooth, clear, and without blemish; as, a fair face. The word applies wholly to what is superficial; we can say "fair, yet false." In a specific sense, fair has the sense of blond, as opposed to dark or brunette. One who possesses vivacity, wit, good nature, or other pleasing qualities may be attractive without beauty. Comely denotes an aspect that is smooth, genial, and wholesome, with a certain fulness of contour and pleasing symmetry, tho falling short of the beautiful; as, a comely matron. That is picturesque which would make a striking picture.
Antonyms:
awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasantSynonyms:
attractive, beauteous, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, prettyPreposition:
Beautiful to the eye; beautiful in appearance, in spirit; "beautiful for situation," Ps. xlviii, 2; beautiful of aspect, of its kind.
Princeton's WordNet
beautifuladjective
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
"a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
Antonyms:
repulsive, unsightly, monstrous, ugly, ill-favored, hideous, grotesque, unlovely, scrofulous, unpicturesque, ill-favoured, unpleasant, fugly, disfigured, evil-lookingbeautifuladjective
(of weather) highly enjoyable
"what a beautiful day"
Antonyms:
ill-favored, hideous, ugly, monstrous, unlovely, fugly, repulsive, grotesque, unsightly, scrofulous, unpleasant, evil-looking, unpicturesque, ill-favoured, disfigured
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Editors Contribution
not pretty
a nice-looking
How to use beautiful in a sentence?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
That's where I live, it's where I will die,it's so rich with nature and just everything. I can't get enough of it and being able to shoot [the film during] the most beautiful time of year just added to the whole [experience]. [Hudson Valley] is a character in itself in this movie.
Devils live in beautiful palatial villa.
In a turbulence mode theres big eddies making little eddies making even smaller eddies. Youve got a beautiful cascade.
Everything shut down when we found her, we all lined up. And you could hear a pin drop on a construction site, which is just eerie, and amazing and beautiful all in one.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#774 | average | |
#841 | bad | |
#1397 | beautiful | |
#1711 | poor | |
#3208 | wet | |
#3226 | plain | |
#4709 | cloudy | |
#4981 | weak | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#7689 | ugly | |
#13293 | dull | |
#14061 | shocking | |
#14856 | grim | |
#15472 | rainy | |
#17102 | miserable | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#18616 | unpleasant | |
#19046 | overcast | |
#21488 | mediocre | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#30875 | monstrous | |
#30944 | deformed | |
#30977 | hideous | |
#36903 | grotesque | |
#37348 | horrid | |
#38072 | substandard | |
#43152 | repulsive | |
#45066 | unattractive | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#50207 | unsightly | |
#50897 | homely | |
#51821 | shoddy | |
#54515 | frightful | |
#57592 | odious | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#74057 | disfigured | |
#91028 | fugly | |
#98549 | uncouth | |
#109297 | misshapen | |
#121797 | ungainly | |
#212513 | unlovely |
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