Word Type

Adjective

Noun

Adjective

Verb

The word "ugly" can be used as adjective, noun, adjective and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

attractive beautiful beautiful beautiful pretty moral pretty pretty beautiful

Defined As

opposite of beautiful

Derived Terms

Hollywood ugly beat with the ugly stick big and ugly enough big enough and ugly enough big ugly dish butt ugly butt-ugly coyote ugly fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch fugly plug-ugly pug-ugly rear one's ugly head uggo ugli uglification uglify uglily ugly American ugly as bull-beef ugly as sin ugly cry ugly customer ugly duckling ugly finder ugly hot ugly law ugly man ugly milk-cap ugly sister ugly stick ugly up ugly-finder

Distinct From

attractive beautiful gorgeous handsome pleasing pretty sightly

Context

nonstandard slang uk

Related Terms

ug ugliness ugly man ugly person ugly woman

Related Terms

aesthetic awkward bonnet displease displeasing face morality offensive project sensibility shade ug ugliness unattractive

Similar Terms

alarming awkward disfigured disfigured displeasing evil evil looking evil-looking fugly fugly grotesque hideous hideous ill favoured ill-favored ill-favoured ill-natured monstrous monstrous off fleek repulsive scrofulous scrofulous ugly ass unattractive unlovely unpicturesque unpicturesque unsightly unsightly

Synonym Network

corrupt despicable displeasing hideous homely horrifying immoral repulsive surly unattractive uncomely unsightly vile

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.