different between ugly vs unshapen
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:
- what ugly mean
- what ugly animal are you
- what ugly stands for
- what uglydolls character are you
- what ugly betty character are you
- what ugly things is atticus worried about
- how to say you are ugly
- how to tell if ugly
unshapen
English
Etymology
Past participle of unshape.
Adjective
unshapen (comparative more unshapen, superlative most unshapen)
- Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.
Verb
unshapen
- past participle of unshape
unshapen From the web:
- what does unshapen mean
- what does sharpened mean
- what does unsharp mask do
- what is unsharpened meaning
- what does unsharpened
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- ugly vs unshapen
- deformed vs unshapen
- terms vs foldless
- foldless vs goldless
- moldless vs foldless
- foodless vs foldless
- holdless vs foldless
- fold vs foldless
- lordless vs lardless
- lordless vs wordless
- loomless vs loamless
- slatters vs blatters
- slotters vs slatters
- slatters vs slathers
- slatters vs splatters
- slatterns vs slatters
- slatters vs spatters
- slatters vs scatters
- smatters vs slatters
- tawks vs mawks