Unlovely
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unlovely is an adjective meaning unattractive, ugly.
Meaning
unattractive, ugly.
More Meanings
- An unattractive or ugly thing or person.
Example Sentences
Francis's own unlovely tunic, and that of his female colleague Clare, foundress of parallel communities for women, are lovingly preserved and displayed by the nuns of St Clare in Assisi […]
Many intriguing unlovelies are found in “The Boxtrolls,” a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow’s creepy-good children’s novel “Here Be Monsters.”
Even today Lambeth is a singularly unlovely part of the British capital, jammed anonymously between the great fan of roads and railway lines that take commuters in and out of the city center from the southern counties.
[…] an ocean of dereliction, blackened tenements, public drunkenness, dozens of unlovely skyscrapers, featureless housing schemes. It was as if this was all that Glasgow deserved. And yet the city still had a lot of bazazz.
Word Forms
- unlovelier
- unloveliest
- unlovelies
Synonyms for unlovely
Depending on context, synonyms include ugly, unpicturesque.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ugly, unpicturesque, unattractive, bad-looking, unbeautiful, ill-favored.
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