UGLY as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • deficient in beauty
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • ugly gray slums
   
   Similar To
   • inaesthetic (what does inaesthetic mean?)
   • unaesthetic (what does unaesthetic mean?)
2. Meaning
   • provoking horror
   
   Synonym(s)
   • atrocious (what does atrocious mean?)
   • frightful (what does frightful mean?)
   • horrible (what does horrible mean?)
   • horrifying (what does horrifying mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   
   Similar To
   • alarming (what does alarming mean?)
3. Meaning
   • threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
   
   Synonym(s)
   • baleful (what does baleful mean?)
   • forbidding (what does forbidding mean?)
   • menacing (what does menacing mean?)
   • minacious (what does minacious mean?)
   • minatory (what does minatory mean?)
   • ominous (what does ominous mean?)
   • sinister (what does sinister mean?)
   • threatening (what does threatening mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • a baleful look
   • forbidding thunderclouds
   • his tone became menacing
   • ominous rumblings of discontent
   • sinister storm clouds
   • a sinister smile
   • his threatening behavior
   • ugly black clo
   
   Similar To
   • alarming (what does alarming mean?)
4. Meaning
   • displeasing to the senses and morally revolting
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • an ugly face
   • ugly furniture
   • war is ugly
   
   Antonym(s)
   • beautiful (what does beautiful mean?)
   
   Similar To
   • disfigured (what does disfigured mean?)
   • grotesque (what does grotesque mean?)
   • monstrous (what does monstrous mean?)
   • unnatural (what does unnatural mean?)
   • hideous (what does hideous mean?)
   • repulsive (what does repulsive mean?)
   • ill-favored (what does ill-favored mean?)
   • ill-favoured (what does ill-favoured mean?)
   • scrofulous (what does scrofulous mean?)
   • unsightly (what does unsightly mean?)
   • unlovely (what does unlovely mean?)
   • unpicturesque (what does unpicturesque mean?)
   
   See Also
   • displeasing (what does displeasing mean?)
   • unattractive (what does unattractive mean?)
   • awkward (what does awkward mean?)
   
   Attribute(s)
   • beauty (what does beauty mean?)
5. Meaning
   • morally reprehensible
   
   Synonym(s)
   • despicable (what does despicable mean?)
   • unworthy (what does unworthy mean?)
   • vile (what does vile mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • would do something as despicable as murder
   • ugly crimes
   • the vile development of slavery appalled them
   
   Similar To
   • evil (what does evil mean?)
   • wicked (what does wicked mean?)
6. Meaning
   • inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
   
   Synonym(s)
   • surly (what does surly mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • a surly waiter
   • an ugly frame of mind
   
   Similar To
   • ill-natured (what does ill-natured mean?)