Meaning

5 senses
  1. Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.

    hässlich, häßlich (pre-1996), unschön

    безобра́зныйbezobráznyj, уро́дливыйuródlivyj, некраси́выйnekrasívyj

    бридки́йbrydkýj, потво́рнийpotvórnyj, пога́нийpohányj

    displeasing to the senses

  2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

  3. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

    He played an ugly trick on us.

  4. (Southern US)Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

    an ugly temper; to feel ugly

  5. (derogatory, figuratively)Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

    an ugly customer, wound or rumor

    an ugly story that was being noised about in newsrooms across the nation

Examples

653 sentences
  1. She was wearing an ugly dress.

    На ній була огидна сукня. — aandrusiak

    ruОна носила безобразное платье. — sharptoothed

    deSie trug ein hässliches Kleid. — MUIRIEL

  2. Tom said that Mary was ugly.

    Том сказав, що Мері негарна. — deniko

    ruТом сказал, что Мэри некрасивая. — marafon

  3. I know that Tom is ugly.

    Я знаю, що Том потворний. — deniko

    ruЯ знаю, что Том некрасив. — marafon

  4. That ugly man has a beautiful wife.

    Той потворний чоловік має прекрасну дружину. — deniko

  5. Tom told me he thought Mary was ugly.

    Том сказав мені, що він вважає Мері негарною. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing:
Русский
By meaning 1
displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fear

Inherited from Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”), from uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”) (possibly related to agg (“strife, hate”)), equivalent to ug + -ly. Cognate with Scots ugly, uglie, Icelandic ugglegur. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.

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Forms

uglier, ugliest
Comparativeuglier Lesson
Superlativeugliest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

28 synonyms
offensive to one's sensibilities or morality:corruptB2immoralB2vile
displeasing to the ear or some other sense:displeasing
Close in meaning

Antonyms

11 antonyms
displeasing to the ear or some other sense:pleasingA2
offensive to one's sensibilities or morality:moralB2

Word family

30 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • an an ugly
  • ugliest dress
  • is really ugly
  • really ugly
  • get ugly
  • to get ugly
  • to be ugly

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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