ugly
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Adjective 4 meanings
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
“He played an ugly trick on us.”
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
“an ugly temper; to feel ugly”
Noun 2 meanings
Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”), from uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”) (possibly related to agg (“strife, hate”)), equivalent to ug + -ly. Cognate with Scots ugly, uglie, Icelandic ugglegur.
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UGLY at a glance
UGLY has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (U 1 + G 2 + L 1 + Y 4) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,466 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with ugly
All rhymes- STRONGLY12
- INCREASINGLY18
- SEEMINGLY15
- SURPRISINGLY18
- ACCORDINGLY20
- AMAZINGLY24
- INTERESTINGLY17
- WILLINGLY16
- OVERWHELMINGLY29
- KNOWINGLY20
- WRONGLY14
- EXCEEDINGLY25
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