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Another word for ugly

ugly Synonyms

ugly

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Ill-favored
unsightly, loathsome, hideous, homely, repulsive, unseemly, uncomely, deformed, bad-looking, plain, disfigured, monstrous, foul, horrid, frightful, revolting, repellent, unlovely, appalling, haglike, misshapen, misbegotten, hard-featured, grisly, unprepossessing, horse-faced*, having a face that would stop a clock*, looking a mess*, looking a fright*, looking like the devil or deuce*, not fit to be seen*.
Antonyms handsome, beautiful*, graceful.
Unpleasant
nasty, nauseous, nauseating*, noisome, disagreeable, disgusting, odious, revolting, repellent, repulsive, sorry, vile, dirty, filthy, sordid, messy, sickening, foul; see also unpleasant.
Antonyms nice*, dainty, agreeable.
Dangerous
pugnacious, quarrelsome, obnoxious, bellicose, rough, disagreeable, cantankerous, violent, vicious, evil, sinister, treacherous, wicked, formidable, truculent.
Antonyms mild*, reasonable, complaisant.

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Another word for ugly

adjective

Extremely displeasing to the eye:
hideous, ill-favored, unsightly. Idiom: ugly as sin. See beautiful
Extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings:
atrocious, disgusting, foul, horrid, nasty, nauseating, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, sickening, unwholesome, vile. See like, pain
Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms:
dirty, heavy, raging, roiled, roily, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, violent, wild. See calm
Having or showing a bad temper:
bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, waspish. (Informal) crabby, mean². Idiom: out of sorts. See attitude

noun

(Informal)

An unsightly object:

mess, monstrosity, ugliness. (Informal) fright, sight. See beautiful

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He was short, near-sighted, ugly and exceptionally awkward.
I wasn't ugly, but I didn't consider myself beautiful.
She shook her head to clear the ugly thought.
Guess I'm the ugly duckling in this group.
There was nothing ugly between them.

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