ugly

ugly is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
2. superlative. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
3. superlative. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
4. noun. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
5. transitive verb. To make ugly.
6. adjective. provoking horror- Winston Churchill

   "an atrocious automobile accident"

   "a frightful crime of decapitation"

   Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, horrifying

7. adjective. displeasing to the senses

   "an ugly face"

   "ugly furniture"

8. adjective. morally reprehensible

   "would do something as despicable as murder"

   "ugly crimes"

   Synonyms: despicable, slimy, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched

9. adjective. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

   "a surly waiter"

   "an ugly frame of mind"

   Synonyms: surly

Synonyms

atrocious, frightful, horrible, horrifying, despicable, slimy, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, surly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ugly:

guly

Common word forms

uglier, uglies, uglily, ugliest

Words from these letters

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