laid

Meaning

1. physically ugly
2. morally corrupt

Concepts

ugly

nasty

unattractive

unsightly

homely

repulsive

ugly-looking

unaesthetic

unbeautiful

unesthetic

unlovely

unpicturesque

bad

baleful

forbidding

menacing

minacious

minatory

ominous

sinister

threatening

despicable

slimy

unworthy

vile

worthless

wretched

surly

mean

ugliness

hideous

esthetically challenged

ill-favored

plain

unpleasant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɛ/

Etymology

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).
Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Occitan lag (“ugly”). More at loath.