Category:Ugly

Ug"ly, a. [compar. Uglier; superl. Ugliest.] Etym: [icel. uggligr Fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). Awe.]

1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable Or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, i have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of Ghastly dreams. Shak.

2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to Feel ugly. [colloq. U. S.]

3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an Ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [colloq.]

Ugly Ug"ly, n.

Defn: a shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

Ugly Ug"ly, v. t.

Defn: to make ugly. [r.] Richardson.