ugly
Adjective
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Displeasing to the senses (synset 300222548)
"an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"also:
- unattractive - lacking beauty or charm
- awkward - lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- displeasing - causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities
tells us about: beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the sensessimilar to:- disfigured - having the appearance spoiled
- evil-looking - having an evil appearance
- fugly - (slang) extremely ugly
- grotesque, monstrous - distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
- hideous, repulsive - so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
- ill-favored, ill-favoured - usually used of a face
- scrofulous - having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula
- unlovely, unpicturesque - without beauty or charm
- unsightly - unpleasant to look at
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Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace (synset 301142567)
"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"similar to: ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant dispositionsame as: surly
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Morally reprehensible (synset 301136517)
"would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"similar to: evil - morally bad or wrong
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Provoking horror (synset 300195081)
"an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"; "an ugly wound"similar to: alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
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