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Desecrate vs Ugly - What's the difference?

desecrate | ugly |

As adjectives the difference between desecrate and ugly

is that desecrate is desecrated while ugly is displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

As a verb desecrate

is (transitive)  to profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

As a noun ugly is

(slang|uncountable) ugliness.

desecrate

English

Verb

  • (transitive)  To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
  • * 1916 — James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley , Volume 10.
    • It's reform -- reform! You're going to 'turn over a new leaf,' and all that, and sign the pledge, and quit cigars, and go to work, and pay your debts, and gravitate back into Sunday-school, where you can make love to the preacher's daughter under the guise of religion, and desecrate the sanctity of the innermost pale of the church by confessions at Class of your 'thorough conversion'!
  • (transitive)  To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
  • (transitive)  To inappropriately change.
  • * 1913 — William Alexander Lambeth and Warren H. Manning, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.
    • A subsequent owner has desecrated the main hall and robbed it of its grandeur by putting in a floor just beneath the circular windows in order to make an upper room over the hall.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

    Related terms

    * desecrated * desecration * desecrative * desecrator

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Desecrated.
  • *1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Myster of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound—here are the temples most desecrate .

    • ugly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
  • * Spenser
    • the ugly view of his deformed crimes
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
  • Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
  • Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly , gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
  • Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Synonyms

    * (displeasing to the eye) hideous, homely, repulsive, unattractive, uncomely, unsightly * (displeasing to the ear or some other sense) displeasing, repulsive, unattractive * (sense, offensive to one's sensibilities or morality) corrupt, immoral, vile * See also

    Antonyms

    * (displeasing to the eye) attractive, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome, pretty, sightly * (displeasing to the ear or some other sense) attractive, pleasing * (sense, offensive to one's sensibilities or morality) moral

    Derived terms

    * uggo * ugly duckling * uglification * uglify

    Noun

  • (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
  • * 2009 : (Lady Gaga) and (RedOne), "(Bad Romance)":
    • I want your ugly / I want your disease.
  • (slang) An ugly person or thing.
  • (UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
    • (Charles Kingsley)
    Luke is the definition of ugly