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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
ugly From the web:
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dire
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?rus (“fearful, ominous”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da???(?)/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Adjective
dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
- Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- His dire mistake allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dire.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- voir dire
Anagrams
- Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, drie, ired, ride
French
Etymology
From Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /d?zi?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
dire
- to say, to tell
- (informal) (transitive with à) to be of interest to someone, to interest someone
- (informal) (transitive with à) to sound familiar
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- diction
- indicible
Noun
dire m (plural dires)
- saying (that which is said)
- belief, opinion
Derived terms
- aux dires de
Further reading
- “dire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ride, ridé
Italian
Alternative forms
- dicere (archaic)
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di.re/
- Hyphenation: dì?re
Verb
dìre (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular imperfect dicévo, second-person singular imperative di' or (with written accent) dì, auxiliary avere) (transitive)
- to say, tell
- to recite
- to mean
- to think
- to admit
Conjugation
Related terms
Anagrams
- ride
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?di?.re/, [?d?i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?di.re/, [?d?i???]
Adjective
d?re
- vocative masculine singular of d?rus
References
- dire in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say (express using language)
Descendants
- French: dire
Occitan
Alternative forms
- díder, díser
Etymology
From Old Occitan dir, dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say (express using language)
- to mean; to signify
Conjugation
Old French
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- (chiefly intransitive) to say
- (transitive) to recount (a story)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- Middle French: dire
- French: dire
- Norman: dithe
- Walloon: dire
References
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 153
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
- dir
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say
Descendants
- Occitan: dire
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?c?, d?cere.
Verb
dire
- to say
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