Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Ugliness

Nouns
  • ugliness etc. adj.
  • deformity, inelegance
  • acomia
  • disfigurement etc. (blemish) Blemish
  • want of symmetry, inconcinnity
  • distortion etc. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion
  • squalor etc. (uncleanness) Uncleanness. forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae" [Vergil]. [person who is ugly] eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright
  • monster
  • dog [Coll.], woofer [Coll.], pig [Coll.]
  • octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop
Verbs
  • be ugly etc. adj.
  • look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces. render ugly etc. adj.
  • deface
  • disfigure, defigure
  • distort etc. Agreement
  • blemish etc. (injure) Deterioration
  • soil etc. (render unclean) Uncleanness.
Adjectives
  • ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey
  • plain, bald (unadorned) Simplicity
  • homely
  • ordinary, unornamental, inartistic
  • unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely
  • unshapely
  • sightless, seemless
  • not fit to be seen
  • unbeauteous, unbeautiful
  • beautiless, semibeautiful
  • shapeless etc. (amorphous) [Absence of form.] Amorphism. misshapen, misproportioned
  • monstrous
  • gaunt etc. (thin) Narrowness. Thinness
  • dumpy etc. (short) Shortness
  • curtailed of its fair proportions
  • ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned
  • crooked etc. (distorted) [Irregularity of form.] Distortion
  • hard featured, hard visaged
  • ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored
  • ill-looking
  • unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing. graceless, inelegant
  • ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff
  • rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety
  • gawky
  • lumping, lumpish
  • lumbering
  • hulky, hulking
  • unwieldy. squalid, haggard
  • grim, grim faced, grim visaged
  • grisly, ghastly
  • ghost like, death like
  • cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome. frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding
  • repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre
  • grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]
  • horrid, horrible
  • shocking etc. (painful) [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness. foul etc. (dirty) Uncleanness
  • dingy etc. (colorless) [Absence of color.] Achromatism
  • gaudy etc. (color) Color
  • disfigured etc. v.
  • discolored.