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ugliness

noun

Etymology

From ugly + -ness.

  1. derived from uggligr — “fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”
  2. inherited from ugly
  3. suffixed as ugliness — “ugly + ness”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being ugly.

    • His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.
    • Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate

  2. An unsightly or frightful object.

  3. Unpleasant behaviour.

    • There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ugliness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA