The big ugly tree destroys the beauty of the house.
Source: tatoeba (45517)
Ugly
//ˈʌɡli//
Synonyms for "ugly" (223 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (45)
Strong matches (67)
Related words (111)
ill-favoredill-temperedinelegantirascibleirritablejeopardousloathsomelow downmajormarredmeanmenacingmephiticmonstrousmorosenastynauseatingnauseousnoisomeobjectionable
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Adjective(17 words)
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Antonyms
7 entriesSynonyms
13 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
distinct from
7 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
Translations
242 translations across 114 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- lelik adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- lelik adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- αἰσχρός adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- δυσειδής adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Arabic
4 entries- بشع adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- بشع adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- بَشِع adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- خايب adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Armenian
2 entries- գեշ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- տգեղ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Asturian
1 entries- feu adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- eybəcər adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- çirkin adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Basque
3 entries- ezain adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- itsusi adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- zatar adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Belarusian
2 entries- бры́дкі adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- пачва́рны adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Bengali
1 entries- বিশ্রী adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Bikol Central
1 entries- makanos adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гро́зен adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Burmese
1 entries- အကျည်းတန် adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Catalan
1 entries- lleig adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Central Huishui Hmong
1 entries- dab tuag adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- ناحەز adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- ناشیرین adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- heceŋ·-a adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Chamicuro
1 entries- mache'c̈homa adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Chechen
1 entries- ирча adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏁᎩᎸᏗ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Chichewa
1 entries- wonyansa adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 核突 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 樣衰 /样衰 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 肉酸 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 肉酸 adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 媸 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 醜 /丑 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 醜陋 /丑陋 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 難看 /难看 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Czech
2 entries- ošklivý adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- škaredý adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Dalmatian
1 entries- brot adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Danish
4 entries- grim adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- grim adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- modbydelig adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
- ubehagelig adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Dutch
1 entries- lelijk adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Elfdalian
1 entries- liuot adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Esperanto
4 entries- fia adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
- malbela adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- malplaĉa adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- malbelaĵo noun (ugly thing)
Estonian
1 entries- inetu adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Faroese
1 entries- ljótur adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Finnish
4 entries- paha adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- ruma adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- ruma adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- ruma adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
French
4 entries- laid adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- moche adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- vilain adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- vilain adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
Galician
2 entries- feo adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- laido adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Georgian
1 entries- უშნო adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
German
4 entries- hässlich adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- häßlich (pre-1996) adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- unschön adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- Bratze noun (ugly person)
Greek
1 entries- άσχημος adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Greenlandic
1 entries- pinniitsoq adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- lèd adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Hausa
1 entries- mummuna adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pupuka adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Hebrew
1 entries- מכוער \ מְכֹעָר adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Higaonon
1 entries- madaut adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Hindi
3 entries- असुंदर adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- कुरूप adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- बदसूरत adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Hungarian
3 entries- csúnya adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- csúnya adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- ronda adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Icelandic
1 entries- ljótur adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Ido
1 entries- leda adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Igbo
1 entries- jọrọ njọ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Indonesian
3 entries- buruk adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
- jelek adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
- odoh adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Ingrian
1 entries- ruma adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Ingush
1 entries- ийрча adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Irish
3 entries- gránna adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- gránna adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- gránna adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
Italian
3 entries- brutto adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- laido adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- sgradevole adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Japanese
3 entries- 格好悪い adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 見苦しい adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 醜い adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Javanese
1 entries- ala adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Kaitag
1 entries- ерши adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Kazakh
2 entries- кейіпсіз adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- көріксіз adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Khmer
1 entries- ក្រញូស adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Korean
2 entries- 못생기다 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- 추악하다 adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Krio
1 entries- wɔwɔ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- керксүз adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Lao
2 entries- ຫນ້າກຽດ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- ໜ້າກຽດ adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Latin
4 entries- dēfōrmis adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- dēfōrmis adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
- foedus adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- turpis adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Latvian
1 entries- neglīts adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Lithuanian
1 entries- baisus adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- ellent adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Macedonian
2 entries- грд adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- грозник noun (ugly person)
Malagasy
1 entries- ratsy tarehy adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Malay
3 entries- buruk adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- hodoh adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- odoh adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Maltese
3 entries- ikrah adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- kerha adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- koroh adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Minangkabau
1 entries- buruak adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Mongolian
2 entries- зэвүүн adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- муухай adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Mòcheno
1 entries- scheila adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Nepali
2 entries- कुरूप adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- नराम्रो adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Nheengatu
1 entries- puxiwera adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Norman
1 entries- laid adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Northern Sami
2 entries- fasti adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- ropmi adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- ekkel adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- frastøtende adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- stygg adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- stygg adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- ekkel adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- fråstøytande adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- stygg adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- stygg adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Occitan
1 entries- lag adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Ojibwe
1 entries- maanaadad adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Old English
2 entries- unfæġer adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- unfæġer adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
Persian
3 entries- بدقیافه adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- بیریخت adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- زشت adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- eizhich adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Polish
1 entries- brzydki adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Portuguese
1 entries- feio adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Romanian
2 entries- neplăcut adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- urât adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Romansch
2 entries- maltgiert adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- trid adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Russian
4 entries- безобра́зный adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- некраси́вый adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- стра́шный adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- уро́дливый adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अश्रीर adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- grànnda adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- grànnda adj (displeasing to the ear or some other sense)
- grànnda adj (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gadan adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- grd adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- ružan adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- ружан adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Shona
1 entries- shata adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Sicilian
2 entries- bruttu adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- làdiu adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Slovak
1 entries- škaredý adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Slovene
1 entries- gŕd adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Sotho
1 entries- mobe adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Spanish
4 entries- feo adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- callo noun (ugly person)
- callo malayo noun (ugly person)
- fea noun (ugly person)
Sudanese Arabic
1 entries- قَرَض adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Swedish
1 entries- ful adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Tajik
1 entries- зишт adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Thai
1 entries- น่าเกลียด adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Turkish
1 entries- çirkin adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бридки́й adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- нега́рний adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- некраси́вий adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- пога́ний adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Unami
2 entries- xahinakwsi adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- xahinakwsit noun (ugly person)
Upper Sorbian
3 entries- hrozny adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- nješwarny adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- wohidny adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Urdu
1 entries- بدسورت adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Uzbek
2 entries- xunuk adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- yomon adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Vietnamese
2 entries- xấu adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- xấu xí adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Walloon
3 entries- laid adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- laide adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- laidès adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Welsh
1 entries- hyll adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Yiddish
4 entries- ברידקע adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- העסלעך adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- וורעדנע adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
- מבֿוזה adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Yoruba
1 entries- ilosiwaju adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Zhuang
1 entries- yakyawj adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Zulu
1 entries- ngimubi adj (displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing)
Sample sentences
27 total sentences available.
That ugly butcher resembles that fictional monster.
Source: tatoeba (46692)
That picture doesn't seem ugly to me; on the contrary, I think it's rather beautiful.
Source: tatoeba (48998)
There is no point in calling such buildings 'ugly'.
Source: tatoeba (51178)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.