| Pronunciation: | | 'uglee
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- [adj] deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
- [adj] displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly"
- [adj] morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"
- [adj] inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
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| | Synonyms: | | alarming, atrocious, baleful, despicable, disfigured, evil, forbidding, frightful, grotesque, hideous, horrible, horrifying, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-natured, inaesthetic, menacing, minacious, minatory, monstrous, ominous, repulsive, scrofulous, sinister, surly, threatening, unaesthetic, unlovely, unnatural, unpicturesque, unsightly, unworthy, vile, wicked |
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| | Antonyms: | | beautiful |
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| | See Also: | | awkward, displeasing, unattractive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ug"ly\, a. [Compar. {Uglier}; superl. {Ugliest}.] [Icel.
uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) +
-ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). ??. Cf. {Awe}.]
1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of
disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive;
deformed.
The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser.
Like the toad, ugly and venomous. --Shak.
O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly
sights, of ghastly dreams. --Shak.
2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly
temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]
3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss;
as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]
\Ug"ly\, n.
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq.
Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
\Ug"ly\, v. t.
To make ugly. [R.] --Richardson.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | To dream you or others are ugly means aspects of yourself that disgust and repulses you. These may be feelings you have rejected or repressed. |
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