Synonyms for ugly
ˈʌg liug·ly

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1. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

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

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

2. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

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

   Antonyms:
   attractive, pleasing

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

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

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

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1. ugly

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

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

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1. uglyadjective

   displeasing to the senses

   "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

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

   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

2. surly, 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, wretched

   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

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"

   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

   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

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"

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

   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

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1. hideous

   something that isn't pretty is ugly.

   the combination of those colors is really hideous!

   Submitted by JP03 on October 23, 2014  

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1. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill-looking, ill-favored, hard-favored, not handsome

2. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, GREWSOME

3. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   cross, sulky, morose, ill-tempered, crabbed, cross-grained

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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. 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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1. Some Israelis:

   It also includes an ugly anti-Semitic trope of Jewish 'greed'.

2. Mercutio Southall:

   This is the ugly truth of America. It was there like literally and figuratively in black and white. We saw it. We see it daily, it shows what kind of America we live in now and what kind of America it will be with Trump at the helm.

3. Vanessa Lachey:

   The TV personality adds that many Hollywood stars are working to stop paparazzi from snapping pictures of celebs ’ children. I know that everyone is doing a lot … Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner, Angelina and Brad ; everyone is trying to do something about it, Halle Berry said. I don’t know when a change is going to happen as long as we’re a free country and people have freedom of speech, and can do what they want so-to-speak. I think we’re kind of open game. i ’m exposing them to everything in this world ; the good, the bad and the ugly and when they’re 18 I hope they don’t say, ‘ well, I did n’t know this side of things. I was never exposed to that. ’ We try to give them everything.

4. Jeremy Shaver:

   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.

5. Hassan Shibly:

   We just can’t let segregation rear its ugly head in Florida again. This is part of Islamophobia that we need to challenge.