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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, gorgeous, pretty, handsome, attractive, sightly

   Synonyms:
   homely, hideous, repulsive, unattractive, immoral, corrupt, unsightly, displeasing, vile, uncomely

2. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

   Antonyms:
   attractive, pleasing

   Synonyms:
   displeasing, homely, uncomely, vile, hideous, repulsive, unattractive, corrupt, unsightly, immoral

3. uglyadjective

   Offensive to one’s sensibilities or morality.

   He played an ugly trick on us.

   Synonyms:
   unsightly, uncomely, immoral, hideous, repulsive, vile, corrupt, homely, unattractive, displeasing

   Antonyms:
   moral

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. ugly

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ugly

   Antonyms:
   attractive, fair, seemly, shapely, beautiful, handsome

   Synonyms:
   loathsome, hideous, hateful, frightful, uncouth, ill-favored, unsightly, ill-looking, plain, homely, deformed, monstrous, ungainly

Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. uglyadjective

   displeasing to the senses

   «an ugly face»; «ugly furniture»

   Antonyms:
   pulchritudinous, picturesque, gorgeous, sightly, scenic, lovely, bonny, dishy, glorious, splendiferous, bonnie, well-favored, good-natured, pretty-pretty, good, fair, exquisite, pretty, beautiful, handsome, resplendent, beauteous, stunning, unalarming, ravishing, well-favoured, fine-looking, better-looking, comely, good-looking, splendid

   Synonyms:
   horrifying, surly, worthless, despicable, unworthy, vile, slimy, atrocious, horrible, wretched, frightful

2. surly, uglyadjective

   inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

   «a surly waiter»; «an ugly frame of mind»

   Antonyms:
   beauteous, beautiful, resplendent, pretty, bonny, pretty-pretty, pulchritudinous, handsome, ravishing, exquisite, splendiferous, well-favoured, good, fair, comely, good-natured, bonnie, stunning, better-looking, lovely, sightly, good-looking, glorious, gorgeous, fine-looking, splendid, unalarming, picturesque, well-favored, scenic, dishy

   Synonyms:
   frightful, horrifying, surly, worthless, despicable, unworthy, slimy, atrocious, horrible, vile, wretched

3. despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretchedadjective

   morally reprehensible

   «would do something as despicable as murder»; «ugly crimes»; «the vile development of slavery appalled them»; «a slimy little liar»

   Antonyms:
   splendid, ravishing, sightly, unalarming, bonny, resplendent, fine-looking, lovely, stunning, good-looking, beauteous, dishy, handsome, glorious, well-favoured, comely, gorgeous, pretty-pretty, well-favored, good, picturesque, pretty, good-natured, exquisite, fair, beautiful, better-looking, scenic, pulchritudinous, bonnie, splendiferous

   Synonyms:
   frightful, queasy, offensive, pitiable, pathetic, nauseating, piteous, vile, loathsome, misfortunate, suffering, miserable, pitiful, hapless, horrible, worthless, unworthy, nauseous, slimy, undeserving, horrifying, atrocious, deplorable, sickening, woeful, noisome, wretched, poor, execrable, despicable, slimed, surly

4. atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, uglyadjective

   provoking horror

   «an atrocious automobile accident»; «a frightful crime of decapitation»; «an alarming, even horrifying, picture»; «war is beyond all words horrible»- Winston Churchill; «an ugly wound»

   Antonyms:
   lovely, better-looking, pretty-pretty, splendid, ravishing, splendiferous, good-natured, fine-looking, well-favoured, bonnie, resplendent, bonny, gorgeous, pretty, beauteous, scenic, pulchritudinous, comely, well-favored, good-looking, glorious, handsome, fair, exquisite, beautiful, dishy, sightly, picturesque, unalarming, good, stunning

   Synonyms:
   frightful, flagitious, unworthy, wretched, terrible, monstrous, fearful, horrible, worthless, tremendous, abominable, unspeakable, awful, grievous, atrocious, slimy, dreadful, horrifying, vile, despicable, painful, surly

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1. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome, frightful, crossgrained, ill-natured, unamiable, inaffable, surly, refractory, vicious, indocile, spiteful, sullen, morose, uncomely, hard-visaged, homely, ill-favored, hard-featured

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glamorous

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

2. sycon

   sycon is when you are super cool

   the boy is so sycon

   Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2019  

How to use ugly in a sentence?

1. David Mark:

   After a due consultation with my colleagues in both chambers of National Assembly on this ugly development we have therefore agreed that today’s session be suspended forthwith.

2. Marco Rubio:

   Of all the people running, no one understands it better than I do, i understand this issue, the good, the bad, the ugly.

3. Mercutio Southall:

   This is the ugly truth of America. It was there like literally and figuratively in black and white. We saw it. We see it daily, it shows what kind of America we live in now and what kind of America it will be with Trump at the helm.

4. Sarah Clawson:

   People have no idea how much the lighting around the house contributes to an ugly yellow picture, turn off the lights, open all the window blinds, and you’ll be amazed at the difference in video quality.

5. James Arthur Baldwin:

   The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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