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What is the adjective for ugliness?

What's the adjective for ugliness? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs uglify and ugly which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ugly
  1. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
  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.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “It was as ugly a beast as anyone could imagine, yet gentle in nature.”
      “Expect things to get ugly when the two rival gangs clash at sundown.”
      “There had been ugly revelations about the governor's abhorrent behavior, followed by widespread condemnation.”
uglisome
  1. Characterised or marked by ugliness
uglier
  1. comparative form of ugly: more ugly
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I'm used to ugly concrete and unmaintained greenery and even uglier adverts along the roads.”
      “Everywhere you look, beautiful, nubile young girls languish on the arms of badly dressed, uglier, older men.”
      “Its wild swings between the lurid and the lachrymosely sentimental are much uglier, however.”
ugliest
  1. superlative form of ugly: most ugly
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the repository of the ugliest objects on earth.”
      “Four years later he found himself both a millionaire and embroiled in the ugliest of financial scandals.”
      “Believe me when I tell you that I would make the world's ugliest cross-dresser.”
uglified
uglifying
uglied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ugly
uglying
  1. present participle of ugly
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