ugliness

Roget category 846

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections

#846. Ugliness

noun

ugliness etc. adj. — deformity, inelegance — acomia^† — disfigurement etc. (blemish) 848 — want of symmetry, inconcinnity^† — distortion etc. 243 — squalor etc. (uncleanness) 653.
forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae" [Vergil]. [person who is ugly] eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright — monster — dog [Coll.], woofer [Coll.], pig [Coll.] — octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan^†, satyr^†, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop^†, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum [Lat.] [Vergil].

verb

be ugly etc. adj. — look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces.
render ugly etc. adj. — deface — disfigure, defigure^† — distort etc. 23 — blemish etc. (injure) 659 — soil etc. (render unclean) 653.

adjective

ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey — plain, bald (unadorned) 849 — homely — ordinary, unornamental^†, inartistic — unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely — unshapely — sightless, seemless^† — not fit to be seen — unbeauteous^†, unbeautiful — beautiless^†, semibeautiful — shapeless etc. (amorphous) 241.
misshapen, misproportioned^† — monstrous — gaunt etc. (thin) 203 — dumpy etc. (short) 201 — curtailed of its fair proportions — ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned — crooked etc. (distorted) 243 — hard featured, hard visaged — ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored — ill-looking — unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.
graceless, inelegant — ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff — rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety — gawky — lumping, lumpish^† — lumbering — hulky^†, hulking — unwieldy.
squalid, haggard — grim, grim faced, grim visaged — grisly, ghastly — ghost like, death like — cadaverous, grewsome^†, gruesome.
frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding — repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre — grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.] — horrid, horrible — shocking etc. (painful) 830.
foul etc. (dirty) 653 — dingy etc. (colorless) 429 — gaudy etc. (color) 428 — disfigured etc. v. — discolored.

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