Antonyms for ugly
ˈʌg liug·ly

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Shen Shikai:

   This is already a bubble. It's a game of the greater fool, the economy has stalled for two months, and companies' first-quarter earnings will be ugly. Why on earth are stocks trading at such a level?

2. Shawn Crowley:

   Three women, one clear pattern, pounce, kiss, grab, grope, don’t wait. When you’re a star you can do anything you want. And when they speak up about what happened, attack, humiliate them, call them liars. Call them too ugly to assault.

3. Dave Chappelle:

   Will Smith did the impression of a perfect person for 30 years, and Will Smith ripped Will Smith mask off and showed Richard Williams Will Smith was as ugly as the rest of Richard Williams, whatever the consequences are... I hope Will Smith doesn't put Will Smith mask back on again, and lets Will Smith real face breathe.... I see Chris Rock in both men.

4. Thomas Huxley:

   The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

5. Clive Standen:

   It doesn’t come from a vain point of view, I do it because Rollo is a berserker, when I’m the berserker it makes your blood boil and I want to do a quick blast of a workout before a take, because I want to look authentic. To physically scream and shout and get yourself into a berserker rage you need to get the blood pumping beforehand. It’s an ugly thing to go through.

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