ugly

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ug=ly
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

ugly, a. [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). . Cf. Awe.].

•  Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ugly view of his deformed crimes."  [1913 Webster]

  "Like the toad, ugly and venomous."  [1913 Webster]

  "O, I have passed a miserable night,
  So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams."  [1913 Webster]
•  Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.  [1913 Webster]
•  Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.  [1913 Webster]

ugly, n. 

 A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.  C. Kingsley.  [1913 Webster]

ugly, v. t. 

 To make ugly.  Richardson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ugly, adj. (uglier, ugliest)
1 unpleasing or repulsive to see or hear (an ugly scar; spoke with an ugly snarl).
2 unpleasantly suggestive; discreditable (ugly rumours are about).
3 threatening, dangerous (the sky has an ugly look).
4 morally repulsive; vile (ugly vices).

Idiom

ugly customer an unpleasantly formidable person. ugly duckling a person who turns out to be beautiful or talented etc. against all expectations (with ref. to a cygnet in a brood of ducks in a tale by Andersen).

Derivative

uglily adv. ugliness n.

Etymology

ME f. ON uggligr to be dreaded f. ugga to dread

THESAURUS

ugly

abominable, alarming, awkward, bad, bad-tempered, base, bearish, beautiless, bitchy, bitter, blemished, blotted, cacophonic, cacophonous, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, corrupt, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, dangerous, dangersome, debased, defaced, degenerate, depraved, despicable, detestable, disadvantageous, disagreeable, discomforting, disfigured, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, disquieting, distasteful, dysphemistic, dysphemized, evil, excitable, execrable, explosive, feisty, filthy, foul, fractious, fraught with danger, ghastly, grotesque, gruesome, hateful, hazardous, heinous, hideous, homely, hostile, huffish, huffy, ill-favored, ill-tempered, immoral, inelegant, irascible, irritable, jeopardous, loathsome, marred, mean, menacing, mephitic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, ornery, parlous, periculous, perilous, perverse, perverted, plain, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, short on looks, sickening, snappish, sordid, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, spoiled, surly, testy, thankless, threatening, troublesome, uglified, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, uncomfortable, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unhandsome, uninviting, unlikable, unlovely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unprepossessing, unpretty, unsavory, unsightly, untasteful, unwelcome, vile, waspish

ROGET THESAURUS

ugly

Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.