ugly

Etymology
,, , borrowed from , from (possibly related to ), equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.

Adjective

 * 1) Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
 * 2) Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
 * 3) Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
 * 4)  Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
 * 5) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
 * 1)  Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
 * 2) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
 * 1)  Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
 * 2) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
 * 1) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:ugly
 * See also Thesaurus:ugly
 * See also Thesaurus:ugly
 * See also Thesaurus:ugly

Translations

 * Afrikaans: lelik
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: شنيع
 * Hijazi Arabic: بشع, وِحِش
 * Lebanese Arabic: بشع
 * Moroccan Arabic: خايب
 * South Levantine Arabic: بشع
 * Sudanese Arabic: قَرَض
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque: itsusi, zatar, ezain
 * Belarusian: пачва́рны, бры́дкі
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Huishui Hmong: dab tuag
 * Central Sierra Miwok: heceŋ·-a-
 * Chamicuro: mache'c̈homa
 * Chechen: ирча
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏁᎩᎸᏗ
 * Chichewa: wonyansa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 醜怪, 核突, 醜陋
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: brot
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: liuot
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: inetu
 * Faroese: ljótur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, laido
 * Georgian: უშნო
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δυσειδής
 * Ancient Greek: αἰσχρός
 * Greenlandic: pinniitsoq
 * Guaraní:
 * Haitian Creole: lèd
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: pupuka
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: madaut
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: jọrọ njọ
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: ruma
 * Ingush: ийрча
 * Irish: gránna
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 格好悪い
 * Javanese: ala
 * Kazakh: кейіпсіз, көріксіз
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Krio: wowoh
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ناشیرین, ناحەز
 * Kyrgyz: керксүз
 * Lao: ຫນ້າກຽດ, ໜ້າກຽດ
 * Latin: dēfōrmis, ,
 * Latvian: neglīts
 * Lithuanian: baisus
 * Luxembourgish: ellent
 * Macedonian: грд
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, , odoh
 * Maltese: ikrah, kerha, koroh
 * Mbyá Guaraní: vaikue
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mòcheno: scheila
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nepali: नराम्रो,
 * Nheengatu: puxiwera
 * Norman: laid
 * Northern Sami: ropmi, fasti
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, frastøtende
 * Nynorsk: stygg, støgg, fråstøytande
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: maanaadad
 * Old English: unfæġer
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: eizhich
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: trid, maltgiert
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: grànnda
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ружан
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shona: shata
 * Slovak: škaredý
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian:, wohidny, nješwarny
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: น่าเกลียด
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, потво́рний, , нега́рний, некраси́вий
 * Urdu: بدسورت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: מיאוס, מבֿוזה, העסלעך, ברידקע, וורעדנע, פּאַסקודנע
 * Yoruba: ilosiwaju
 * Zhuang: yakyawj
 * Zulu: ngimubi


 * Afrikaans: lelik
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 難聽, 肉酸
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:, ubehagelig
 * Esperanto: malplaĉa
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: gránna
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ekkel, vemmelig
 * Nynorsk: stygg, støgg, ekkel, vemjeleg, vemmeleg
 * Old English: unfæġer
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: grànnda


 * Danish: væmmelig, modbydelig
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: gránna
 * Latin: dēfōrmis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: vemmelig, vond,
 * Nynorsk: vemmeleg, vond, stygg
 * Scottish Gaelic: grànnda


 * Albanian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Tagalog:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Sardinian:, , ,
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Telugu:

Noun

 * 1)  Ugliness.
 * 2)  An ugly person or thing.
 * 3)  Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
 * 4)  A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
 * 1)  A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
 * 1)  A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
 * 1)  A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.

Translations

 * Esperanto: malbelulo, malbelulino
 * German:,  , ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stygging
 * Nynorsk: stygging
 * Spanish:, , ,


 * Danish: øjebæ
 * Esperanto: malbelaĵo

Verb

 * 1)  To make ugly (sometimes with up).