ugly
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Other meanings
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
“He played an ugly trick on us.”
Related words
- bugly
- mugly
- superugly
- ugger
- ugglesome
- uglisome
- uglyish
- uglyism
- uglysome
- unugly
- fugly
- uggo
Word history
From Old Norse "uggligr" (fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ugly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.