Antonyms for ugly
ˈʌg liug·ly

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1. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, gorgeous, pretty, handsome, attractive, sightly

   Synonyms:
   homely, hideous, repulsive, unattractive, immoral, corrupt, unsightly, displeasing, vile, uncomely

2. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

   Antonyms:
   attractive, pleasing

   Synonyms:
   displeasing, homely, uncomely, vile, hideous, repulsive, unattractive, corrupt, unsightly, immoral

3. uglyadjective

   Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

   He played an ugly trick on us.

   Synonyms:
   unsightly, uncomely, immoral, hideous, repulsive, vile, corrupt, homely, unattractive, displeasing

   Antonyms:
   moral

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1. ugly

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

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1. ugly

   Antonyms:
   attractive, fair, seemly, shapely, beautiful, handsome

   Synonyms:
   loathsome, hideous, hateful, frightful, uncouth, ill-favored, unsightly, ill-looking, plain, homely, deformed, monstrous, ungainly

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. uglyadjective

   displeasing to the senses

   "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

   Antonyms:
   pulchritudinous, picturesque, gorgeous, sightly, scenic, lovely, bonny, dishy, glorious, splendiferous, bonnie, well-favored, good-natured, pretty-pretty, good, fair, exquisite, pretty, beautiful, handsome, resplendent, beauteous, stunning, unalarming, ravishing, well-favoured, fine-looking, better-looking, comely, good-looking, splendid

   Synonyms:
   horrifying, surly, worthless, despicable, unworthy, vile, slimy, atrocious, horrible, wretched, frightful

2. surly, uglyadjective

   inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

   "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

   Antonyms:
   beauteous, beautiful, resplendent, pretty, bonny, pretty-pretty, pulchritudinous, handsome, ravishing, exquisite, splendiferous, well-favoured, good, fair, comely, good-natured, bonnie, stunning, better-looking, lovely, sightly, good-looking, glorious, gorgeous, fine-looking, splendid, unalarming, picturesque, well-favored, scenic, dishy

   Synonyms:
   frightful, horrifying, surly, worthless, despicable, unworthy, slimy, atrocious, horrible, vile, wretched

3. despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretchedadjective

   morally reprehensible

   "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

   Antonyms:
   splendid, ravishing, sightly, unalarming, bonny, resplendent, fine-looking, lovely, stunning, good-looking, beauteous, dishy, handsome, glorious, well-favoured, comely, gorgeous, pretty-pretty, well-favored, good, picturesque, pretty, good-natured, exquisite, fair, beautiful, better-looking, scenic, pulchritudinous, bonnie, splendiferous

   Synonyms:
   frightful, queasy, offensive, pitiable, pathetic, nauseating, piteous, vile, loathsome, misfortunate, suffering, miserable, pitiful, hapless, horrible, worthless, unworthy, nauseous, slimy, undeserving, horrifying, atrocious, deplorable, sickening, woeful, noisome, wretched, poor, execrable, despicable, slimed, surly

4. atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, uglyadjective

   provoking horror

   "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

   Antonyms:
   lovely, better-looking, pretty-pretty, splendid, ravishing, splendiferous, good-natured, fine-looking, well-favoured, bonnie, resplendent, bonny, gorgeous, pretty, beauteous, scenic, pulchritudinous, comely, well-favored, good-looking, glorious, handsome, fair, exquisite, beautiful, dishy, sightly, picturesque, unalarming, good, stunning

   Synonyms:
   frightful, flagitious, unworthy, wretched, terrible, monstrous, fearful, horrible, worthless, tremendous, abominable, unspeakable, awful, grievous, atrocious, slimy, dreadful, horrifying, vile, despicable, painful, surly

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1. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome, frightful, crossgrained, ill-natured, unamiable, inaffable, surly, refractory, vicious, indocile, spiteful, sullen, morose, uncomely, hard-visaged, homely, ill-favored, hard-featured

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1. glamorous

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

2. sycon

   sycon is when you are super cool

   the boy is so sycon

   Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2019  

How to use ugly in a sentence?

1. Jeffrey Halley:

   With positioning in equities, bonds and energy all heavily weighted to this outcome, the resulting correction from a lack of Powell love could be both ugly and emotional.

2. Mohsen Kazemeini:

   This was a very wrong and incorrect action and there is no way this ugly action can be justified.

3. Nguyen Thi Nga:

   Maybe they've realized that the war was too ugly, or they want to correct some of the wrong things that Americans did here.

4. Julian Edelman:

   I know he said some ugly things but I do see an opportunity to have a conversation, i'm proud of my Jewish heritage and for me it's not just about religion. It's about community and culture as well.

5. Proverb:

   You are sure to marry a woman either beautiful or ugly; If ugly she will be a punishment; if beautiful, you will share her with others. Therefore do not marry.

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