ugliness

English

Etymology

ugly +‎ -ness

Noun

ugliness (countable and uncountable, plural uglinesses)

1. The condition of being ugly
   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     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

2. An unsightly or frightful object

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ugliness

Antonyms

• beauty

Related terms

• ugly

Translations

condition of being ugly

• Asturian: feúra f
• Catalan: lletgesa f, lletjor f
• Czech: ošklivost f
• Danish: grimhed c
• Dutch: lelijkheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malbeleco
• Finnish: rumuus (fi)
• French: laideur (fr) f
• Galician: fealdade (gl) f
• German: Hässlichkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: csúnyaság (hu)
• Irish: gráinneacht f
• Italian: bruttezza (it) f
• Japanese: 醜 (ja) (しゅう, shū)
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• Korean: 추함 (chuham)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: dēfōrmitās f, turpitūdō f
• Latvian: neglītums m
• Persian: زشتی (fa), قبح (fa)
• Polish: brzydota (pl) f
• Portuguese: feiura (pt) f, fealdade (pt) f
• Russian: уро́дство (ru) n (uródstvo)
• Spanish: fealdad (es) f
• Swedish: fulhet (sv) c
• Turkish: çirkinlik (tr)
• Welsh: hagrwch m, hyllter m

unsightly or frightful object

• Esperanto: malbelaĵo
• Finnish: kauhistus (fi)
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• Polish: brzydota (pl) f

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} bruttezza (it)
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Anagrams

• gluiness