ugly
adjective
[ ˈʌɡli ]
• unpleasant or repulsive, especially in appearance.
• "people in school always told me I was ugly"
Similar:
unattractive,
ill-favoured,
hideous,
plain,
plain-featured,
plain-looking,
unlovely,
unprepossessing,
unsightly,
displeasing,
disagreeable,
horrible,
frightful,
awful,
ghastly,
gruesome,
grisly,
unpleasant,
foul,
nasty,
grim,
vile,
shocking,
disgusting,
revolting,
repellent,
repugnant,
grotesque,
monstrous,
reptilian,
misshapen,
deformed,
disfigured,
homely,
not much to look at,
short on looks,
as plain as a pikestaff,
as ugly as sin,
fugly,
no oil painting,
huckery,
• involving or likely to involve violence or other unpleasantness.
• "the mood in the room turned ugly"
Similar:
unpleasant,
nasty,
alarming,
disagreeable,
tense,
charged,
serious,
grave,
dangerous,
perilous,
threatening,
menacing,
hostile,
ominous,
sinister,
direful,
minacious,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse uggligr ‘to be dreaded’, from ugga ‘to dread’.
