What does "ill-favored" mean?

Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.

Ill-favored

Q: What is a synonym for "ill-favored"?

Common synonyms include: evil looking, evil minded, evil-eyed, evil-faced, evil-fashioned, evil-favored.

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.
"And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke."

Adjective

1
usually used of a face wordnet

Synonyms

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evil looking evil minded evil-eyed evil-faced evil-fashioned evil-favored

Antonyms

All antonyms

well-favoured

Example

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"Years passed, till Vasilissa grew up and became of an age when it is good to marry. All the young men in the village, high and low, rich and poor, asked for her hand, while not one of them stopped even to look at the stepmother's two daughters, so ill-favored were they."

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