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ugly

adjective

1 an old man with a horribly ugly face:

unattractive, ill-favored, hideous, plain, plain-featured, plain-looking, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsightly, displeasing, disagreeable;

horrible, frightful, awful, ghastly, gruesome, grisly, unpleasant, foul, nasty, grim, vile, shocking, disgusting, revolting, repellent, repugnant, grotesque, monstrous, reptilian, misshapen, deformed, disfigured;

North American homely;

informal not much to look at, short on looks, as plain as a pikestaff, as ugly as sin, fugly;

British, informal no oil painting;

New Zealand, informal huckery.

▷antonyms beautiful, attractive.

2 a huge fight ensued and things got pretty ugly:

unpleasant, nasty, alarming, disagreeable, tense, charged, serious, grave, dangerous, perilous, threatening, menacing, hostile, ominous, sinister;

archaic direful;

rare minacious.

▷antonyms pleasant, calm, peaceable.

3 an ugly rumor:

horrible, unpleasant, disagreeable, despicable, reprehensible, nasty, horrid, appalling, objectionable, offensive, obnoxious, foul, vile, base, dishonorable, dishonest, rotten, vicious, spiteful, malevolent, evil, wicked.