ugliness
Roget-categorie 846
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections
#846.
Ugliness
zelfstandig naamwoord
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].
werkwoord
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.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
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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