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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ugliness has 2 senses

• ugliness(n = noun.attribute) Array - qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses; Array
is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
has particulars: unsightliness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, grotesquery, garishness, gaudiness, unpleasingness, hideousness, unattractiveness, eyesore
Antonym: beauty
Derived form adjective ugly₁

• ugliness(n = noun.attribute) nefariousness, vileness, wickedness - the quality of being wicked; Array
is a kind of evil, evilness
has particulars: filthiness, enormity
Derived form adjective ugly₃

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ugliness

n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

THESAURUS

ugliness

bearishness, bitchiness, cacophony, cantankerousness, churlishness, coarseness, crabbedness, cracked voice, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, disagreeability, disagreeableness, discord, displeasingness, displeasure, distastefulness, dryness, excitability, fractiousness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness, hoarseness, huffiness, huffishness, huskiness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, orneriness, perversity, raspiness, raucity, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, snappishness, stertorousness, testiness, thickness, throatiness, unappealingness, unattractiveness, undelectability, undesirability, unpalatability, unpleasantness, unpleasingness, unsavoriness, waspishness

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Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, 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, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.

Distortion

N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.

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