ugly Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective displeasing to the senses
- an ugly face
- ugly furniture
adjective satellite inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
surly.
- a surly waiter
- an ugly frame of mind
adjective satellite morally reprehensible
worthless; unworthy; vile; slimy; wretched; despicable.
- would do something as despicable as murder
- ugly crimes
- the vile development of slavery appalled them
- a slimy little liar
adjective satellite provoking horror
frightful; horrifying; atrocious; horrible.
- 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

Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). . Cf. Awe.

comparative Uglier ; superlative Ugliest

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser.

Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak.

O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. Colloq. U. S.
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. Colloq.