Meaning

2 senses
  1. An eye lesion.

  2. A displeasing sight; something prominently ugly or unsightly.

    The building, towering over its surroundings with its square concrete frame and reflective walls of gold-tinted glass, was an eyesore visible throughout the city.

    Schandfleck, Unzierde

    уро́дствоuródstvo

    something very ugly and offensive

Examples

7 sentences
  1. It's really an eyesore.

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  2. It's an eyesore.

    ruЭто бельмо на глазу.

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  3. That's an eyesore.

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  4. My clunker might be an eyesore, but it’s full of adventure.

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  5. How did you come to own that eyesore in the first place?

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a displeasing sight:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a displeasing sight:

Origin

From Middle English eye sor, eie-sor, eyen soore, eæge-sare, equivalent to eye + sore.

From Middle English eye sor, eie-sor, eyen soore, eæge-sare, equivalent to eye + sore.

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