Synonyms for ugly
ˈʌg liug·ly

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1. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

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

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

2. uglyadjective

   Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

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

   Antonyms:
   attractive, pleasing

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

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1. ugly

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

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

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1. ugly

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

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

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1. uglyadjective

   displeasing to the senses

   "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

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

   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

2. surly, uglyadjective

   inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

   "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

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

   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

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"

   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

   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

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"

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

   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

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1. hideous

   something that isn't pretty is ugly.

   the combination of those colors is really hideous!

   Submitted by JP03 on October 23, 2014  

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1. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill-looking, ill-favored, hard-favored, not handsome

2. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, GREWSOME

3. uglyadjective

   Synonyms:
   cross, sulky, morose, ill-tempered, crabbed, cross-grained

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "ugly":

   bad-looking, hideous, feo, horrible, awful, naughty, bad, nasty, terrible, hairy, dirty, heinous, unpleasant, abhorrent, funny-looking, abominable, horrific, lousy, repugnant

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1. David Madden:

   In late December, the David Madden stock market was still comfortable with the idea of three rate hikes in 2022 and okay with that, once [ speculation ] tipped over into four, that's where things seemed to get fairly ugly.

2. Brendan Sobie:

   It may look ugly now and there are some challenges to overcome but AirAsia will get through the current turbulence, its position in the Southeast Asia market remains strong and the envy of competitors.

3. Emily Brontë:

   A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

4. Mark Hanson:

   You've got oil that is down meaningfully in 2016, volumes are down, natural gas prices are low because of weather and there is very little in the way of hedging. Then you've got a lot of these companies that were very aggressively financed with debt, it can get pretty ugly.

5. Proverb:

   He devil is not so ugly as he is painted.