Ugly
['ʌglɪ] or ['ʌɡli]
Definition
(adj.) displeasing to the senses; 'an ugly face'; 'ugly furniture' .
Checked by Elaine--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
(superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
(superl.) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
(n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
(v. t.) To make ugly.
Typist: Vilma
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill-looking, ill-favored, hard-favored, not handsome.[2]. Frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, GREWSOME.[3]. Cross, sulky, morose, ill-tempered, crabbed, cross-grained.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loathsome, hideous, hateful, frightful, uncouth, ill-favored, unsightly,ill-looking, plain, homely, deformed, monstrous, ungainly
ANT:Attractive, fair, seemly, shapely, beautiful, handsome
Checked by Alyson
Definition
adj. offensive to the eye: deformed: hateful: ill-natured: very severe dangerous as an ugly wound.—n. (coll.) an ugly person: a hood formerly worn by ladies as a shade for the eyes.—v.t. (rare) to make ugly.—n. Uglificā′tion.—v.t. Ug′lify to make ugly.—adv. Ug′lily in an ugly manner.—n. Ug′liness.—adj. Ug′some hideous.—n. Ug′someness.—Ugly customer a dangerous antagonist; Ugly man the actual person who garrottes the victim in a confederacy of three the others the fore-stall and back-stall covering his escape.
Typist: Mag
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are ugly, denotes that you will have a difficulty with your sweetheart, and your prospects will assume a depressed shade. If a young woman thinks herself ugly, she will conduct herself offensively toward her lover, which will probably cause a break in their pleasant associations.
Typist: Shelley
Examples
- It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Hadn't you better say she's mad enough to be an ugly girl and only a servant? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You have much to learn, thern, replied Xodar, with an ugly smile, nor do I envy you the manner in which you will learn it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The smart, treacherous ugly bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Well, so she does; it can't be denied; and, certainly, if there is one thing more than another that makes a girl look ugly it is stooping. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But will I not be so ugly there with this cropped head that thou wilt be ashamed of me? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had several daughters, the ugliest perhaps that could possibly come of one father. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Moreover, all the powers fought tooth and nail at the Conference for strategic frontiers--the ugliest symptom of all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, dar's Lucy,--de aggravatinest, ugliest wench on de place! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Damascenes are the ugliest, wickedest looking villains we have seen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It isn't a bit hotter here than in Mrs. Van Osburgh's conservatory--and some of the women are not a bit uglier. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Uglier persons than gipsies were known to cross Egdon at times, and a reddleman was one of them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But her fears seemed the uglier, thus shorn of their vagueness; and besides, she had to act, not rave. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Meagre and spare, like all the other rooms, it was even uglier and grimmer than the rest, by being the place of banishment for the worn-out furniture. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You would hardly forget it, would you, sir, for I've seldom seen an uglier. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Editor: Pedro