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Synonyms for ugly
ˈʌg liug·ly
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Wiktionary
uglyadjective
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
Synonyms:
homely, hideous, repulsive, unattractive, immoral, corrupt, unsightly, displeasing, vile, uncomelyAntonyms:
beautiful, gorgeous, pretty, handsome, attractive, sightlyuglyadjective
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Synonyms:
displeasing, homely, uncomely, vile, hideous, repulsive, unattractive, corrupt, unsightly, immoralAntonyms:
attractive, pleasinguglyadjective
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
He played an ugly trick on us.
Synonyms:
unsightly, uncomely, immoral, hideous, repulsive, vile, corrupt, homely, unattractive, displeasingAntonyms:
moral
English Synonyms and Antonyms
ugly
Synonyms:
awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasantAntonyms:
attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
uglyadjective
displeasing to the senses
"an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
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horrifying, surly, worthless, despicable, unworthy, vile, slimy, atrocious, horrible, wretched, frightfulAntonyms:
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, splendidsurly, uglyadjective
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
Synonyms:
frightful, horrifying, surly, worthless, despicable, unworthy, slimy, atrocious, horrible, vile, wretchedAntonyms:
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, dishydespicable, 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"
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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, surlyAntonyms:
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, splendiferousatrocious, 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"
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frightful, flagitious, unworthy, wretched, terrible, monstrous, fearful, horrible, worthless, tremendous, abominable, unspeakable, awful, grievous, atrocious, slimy, dreadful, horrifying, vile, despicable, painful, surlyAntonyms:
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
Editors Contribution
hideous
something that isn't pretty is ugly.
the combination of those colors is really hideous!
Submitted by JP03 on October 23, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
uglyadjective
Synonyms:
unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill-looking, ill-favored, hard-favored, not handsomeuglyadjective
Synonyms:
frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, GREWSOMEuglyadjective
Synonyms:
cross, sulky, morose, ill-tempered, crabbed, cross-grained
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "ugly":
bad-looking, hideous, feo, horrible, awful, naughty, bad, nasty, terrible, hairy, dirty, heinous, unpleasant, abhorrent, funny-looking, abominable, horrific, lousy, repugnant
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How to use ugly in a sentence?
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
It is appalling and outrageous that anyone would cast aside the American flag in a public park and replace it with an ugly symbol of the Nazi regime, we all have a responsibility to speak up when such hateful incidents take place in our communities.
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Our country has gone through some ugly days. The Supreme Court in the 1850s said that it was OK to own a black person, that was the Dred Scott decision. That decision hit the dust bin of history... and United States will too.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:
This has been an absolutely appalling and ugly incident.
Translations for ugly
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- قبيح, بشعArabic
- বিশ্রীBengali
- lleigCatalan, Valencian
- škaredý, ošklivýCzech
- hyllWelsh
- grimDanish
- hässlichGerman
- άσχημοςGreek
- malbelaEsperanto
- feoSpanish
- زشتPersian
- ruma, pahaFinnish
- moche, laidFrench
- gránnaIrish
- grànndaScottish Gaelic
- feoGalician
- असुंदरHindi
- csúnya, rondaHungarian
- գեշ, տգեղArmenian
- buruk, jelekIndonesian
- ledaIdo
- bruttoItalian
- 見苦しい, 格好悪い, 醜いJapanese
- უშნოGeorgian
- 추악한Korean
- turpis, dēfōrmis, foedusLatin
- baisusLithuanian
- neglītsLatvian
- грдMacedonian
- lelijkDutch
- vond, frastøtende, vemmelig, stygg, ekkelNorwegian
- brzydkiPolish
- feio, feiaPortuguese
- urâtRomanian
- уродливый, стра́шный, некрасивый, безобразныйRussian
- ružanSerbo-Croatian
- škaredýSlovak
- fulSwedish
- بدسورتUrdu
- xấu, 醜, xấu xíVietnamese
- laidès, laide, laidWalloon
- מיאוסYiddish
- 丑陋Chinese
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