Ugliness

Quick meaning: Ugliness is a noun meaning The condition of being ugly.

Meaning

The condition of being ugly.

More Meanings

1. An unsightly or frightful object.
2. Unpleasant behaviour.

Example Sentences

There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. Sharon Tate

Then she wrote back to me, responding to everything I wrote but this reference to love and sex […] A week or so went by, and she called. She was worried about me, wanted me to be careful, wanted to be happy, but she said that she had ignored that "ugliness" in my letter.

Word Forms

• uglinesses
• uglinesse

Synonyms for ugliness

Depending on context, synonyms include repulsiveness, homeliness.

Antonyms for ugliness

Common opposites include beauty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abhorrence, atrocity, monstrosity, horror, outrage, ugly.

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