Word Meanings - UGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fearful, dreadful; uggr fear + -ligr (akin to 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

Additional info about word: UGLY

fearful, dreadful; uggr fear + -ligr (akin to 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. 3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UGLY)

• Frightful
• Terrible
• horrible
• alarming
• ugly
• hideous
• monstrous
• dreadful
• direful
• awful
• shocking
• horrid
• terrific
• Grim
• Fierce
• ferocious
• terrible
• ghastly
• sullen
• stern
• Hideous
• unshapely
• grisly
• grim
• Repulsive
• Forbidding
• deterrent
• ungenial
• odious
• unattractive
• disagreeable
• revolting
• Shapeless
• Amorphous
• unformed
• formless
• chaotic
• shadowy
• undefined
• misshaped
• unsymmetrical
• rude
• uncouth
• grotesque

Related words: (words related to UGLY)

• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• GHASTLY
  gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
• STERNSMAN
  A steersman.
• STERNMOST
  Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• HORRIDLY
  In a horrid manner. Shak.
• HORRIDNESS
  The quality of being horrid.
• STERNSON
  The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• CHAOTIC
  Resembling chaos; confused.
• CHAOTICALLY
  In a chaotic manner.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK