ugly
IPA: ˈʌgɫi
noun
- (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
- (slang) An ugly person or thing.
- (logistics, informal) Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- (UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
verb
- (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).
adjective
- Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
- Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
- Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
- (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
Examples of "ugly" in Sentences
- The picture is ugly.
- They use ugly modish Americanisms.
- She is frightened by the ugly building.
- It's scary to the mind and ugly to the eye.
- At the moment, the daydream is more of the ugly kind.
- I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular.