ugliness

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Alternative forms

• uglinesse (obsolete)

Etymology

From ugly +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ugliness (countable and uncountable, plural uglinesses)

1. The condition of being ugly.
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.

   Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate

2. An unsightly or frightful object.
3. Unpleasant behaviour.

   There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

• beauty

Related terms

• ugly

Translations

condition of being ugly

Asturian: feúra f Bulgarian: грозота (bg) f (grozota) Catalan: lletgesa f, lletjor f Czech: ošklivost (cs) f Danish: grimhed c Dutch: lelijkheid (nl) f Esperanto: malbeleco Finnish: rumuus (fi) French: laideur (fr) f Galician: fealdade (gl) f German: Hässlichkeit (de) f Hungarian: csúnyaság (hu) Irish: gráinneacht f Italian: bruttezza (it) f Japanese: 醜 (ja) (しゅう, shū) Korean: 추함 (chuham) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ناشرینی (naşrînî) Latin: dēfōrmitās f, turpitūdō f Latvian: neglītums m Macedonian: грдост f (grdost) Old Galician-Portuguese: ẽatidade f Persian: زشتی (fa), قبح (fa) Polish: brzydota (pl) f Portuguese: feiura (pt) f, fealdade (pt) f Russian: уро́дство (ru) n (uródstvo) Spanish: fealdad (es) f, feúra f Swedish: fulhet (sv) c Turkish: çirkinlik (tr) Welsh: hagrwch (cy) m, hyllter m

unsightly or frightful object

Bulgarian: грозотия (bg) f (grozotija) Esperanto: malbelaĵo Finnish: kauhistus (fi) Macedonian: грдотија f (grdotija) Polish: brzydota (pl) f

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Italian: (please verify) bruttezza (it)

Anagrams

• gluiness