ugly

Meaning

1. Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
3. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
4. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
5. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

nasty

unattractive

bad-looking

ill-shaped

ugly-looking

not pretty

shake one’s head

evillooking

be ugly

evileyed

lacking good qualities

unpretty

not lovely

oddshaped

illfavored

of an ugly countenance

bare-knuckle

bare-knuckled

abhorrent

esthetically challenged

bad woman

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʌɡli/

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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