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deplorable
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déplorable, from Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis., from d?- +? pl?r? +? -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??pl????b??/
Adjective
deplorable (comparative more deplorable, superlative most deplorable)
- Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
- To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- There was a youth and his mother, and a maidservant on board, who were going passengers, and thinking the ship was ready to sail, unhappily came on board the evening before the hurricane began; and having no provisions of their own left, they were in a more deplorable condition than the rest.
- 1840, Public Documents of the State of Maine, "Report Relating to the Insane Hospital", Committee on Public Buildings
- If, however, the early symptoms of insanity be neglected till the brain becomes accustomed to the irregular actions of disease, or till organic changes take place from the early violence of those actions, then the case becomes hopeless of cure. In this situation, in too many cases, the victim of this deplorable malady is cast off by his friends, thrust into a dungeon or in chains, there to remain till the shattered intellect shall exhaust all its remaining energies in perpetual raving and violence, till it sinks into hopeless and deplorable idiocy.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Synonyms
- pathetic
Translations
Noun
deplorable (plural deplorables)
- A person or thing that is to be deplored.
- 1970, Esquire (volume 74)
- […] heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.
- 1970, Esquire (volume 74)
- (neologism, US politics) A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables".
Further reading
- deplorable at OneLook Dictionary Search
- deplorable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle French
Etymology
Late 15th century, borrowed from Latin d?pl?r?bilis.
Adjective
deplorable m or f (plural deplorables)
- deplorable (worthy of compassion)
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis, equivalent to deplorar +? -able.
Adjective
deplorable (plural deplorables)
- deplorable
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ugly
English
Alternative forms
- ougly (obsolete)
Etymology
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. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???li/
- Rhymes: -??li
Adjective
ugly (comparative uglier, superlative ugliest)
- Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
- 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.
Related terms
- ug
Synonyms
- (displeasing to the eye): hideous, homely, repulsive, unattractive, uncomely, unsightly
- (displeasing to the ear or some other sense): displeasing, repulsive, unattractive
- (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality): corrupt, immoral, vile
- See also Thesaurus:ugly
Antonyms
- (displeasing to the eye): attractive, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome, pretty, sightly
- (displeasing to the ear or some other sense): attractive, pleasing
- (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality): moral
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ugly (countable and uncountable, plural uglies)
- (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
- 2009: Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Bad Romance":
- I want your ugly / I want your disease.
- 2009: Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Bad Romance":
- (slang) An ugly person or thing.
- (Britain, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago
- blue uglies
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago
Translations
Verb
ugly (third-person singular simple present uglies, present participle uglying, simple past and past participle uglied)
- (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).
Anagrams
- guly
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