Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ugly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ugly \Ug"ly\, a. [Compar. {Uglier}; superl. {Ugliest}.] [Icel.
uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) +
-ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). ??. Cf. {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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ugly \Ug"ly\, n.
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq.
Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ugly \Ug"ly\, v. t.
To make ugly. [R.] --Richardson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ugly
adj 1: displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly
face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly" [ant: {beautiful}]
2: deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
3: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: {surly}]
4: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
appalled them" [syn: {despicable}, {vile}, {unworthy}]
5: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a
baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation
became ugly" [syn: {baleful}, {forbidding}, {menacing}, {minacious},
{minatory}, {ominous}, {sinister}, {threatening}]
6: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a
frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even
horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"-
Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious}, {frightful},
{horrifying}, {horrible}]
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