Synonyms for ugly
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Hideous — displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing
hideous, unsightly, bad, horrible, awful, homely, frightful, unlovely, grotesque, ill-favored, atrocious, horrifying, alarming, uncomely rare
2. Vile — offensive to one's sensibilities or morality
vile, monstrous, despicable, immoral, hateful, evil, corrupt, wretched, loathsome, ill-tempered, worthless, slimy, sullen, morose, ill, ill-natured, unworthy, cross, fractious, base, crabbed
3. Repulsive — displeasing to the ear or some other sense
Other
surly, unpleasant, disfigured, spiteful, fuck-faced, cross-grained, unpretty, fugly vulgar slang, unhandsome rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
- adj. 2
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
- adj. 3
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
He played an ugly trick on us.
Related words
- Word family
- ugliness
- Phrases
- ugly stick ugly woman ugly person ugly as sin ugly duckling ugly up
Example sentences
- awful I think it's awful, that they're spreading rumors.
- horrible Something horrible happened about three hours ago.
- hideous Some things get more hideous, when you clean them.
- unsightly He has unsightly hairs growing out of his ears.
- hateful What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.
- immoral Be immoral, cheat and steal. Such people live well.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1, ill1
- 4 letters
- base1, evil2, vile1
- 5 letters
- cross1, awful2, slimy2, surly2, fugly
- 6 letters
- homely2, sullen2, morose2
- 7 letters
- corrupt2, hideous3, immoral3, hateful2, crabbed1
- 8 letters
- horrible3, alarming3, wretched2, unworthy3, spiteful2, unlovely, unpretty, uncomely
- 9 letters
- worthless2, monstrous2, grotesque2, repulsive3, atrocious3, unsightly3, frightful2, loathsome2, fractious2
- 10 letters
- unpleasant3, horrifying4, despicable4, disfigured3, unhandsome
- 11 letters
- displeasing
- 12 letters
- unattractive4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).