Adjective: ugly (uglier,ugliest) úg-lee
- Displeasing to the senses
"ugly furniture"; "an ugly face";
- unbeautiful
- Provoking horror
"an ugly wound";
- atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible
- Morally reprehensible
"ugly crimes";
- despicable, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched
- Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
"an ugly frame of mind";
- surly
Derived forms: ugliest, uglier
See also: abhorrent, absonant [archaic], alarming, awkward, beauty, detestable, disfigured, displeasing, distasteful, evil, evil-looking, fugly [slang], grotesque, hideous, ill-favored [US], ill-favoured [Brit, Cdn], ill-natured, loathsome, monstrous, nauseating, obscene, off fleek, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scrofulous, sick, sickening, unattractive, unlovely, unpicturesque, unsavory [US], unsavoury [Brit, Cdn], unsightly
Antonym: beautiful
Encyclopedia: Ugly, Tom