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Frightful vs Ugliness - What's the difference?

frightful | ugliness |

As a adjective frightful

is (obsolete): full of fright; affrighted; frightened.

As a noun ugliness is

the condition of being ugly.

frightful

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* frightfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete): Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
  • *
  • Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
  • (Used as an intensifier)
    • We wasted a frightful amount of money on renovations.

    Synonyms

    * terrible * dreadful * alarming * fearful * terrific * awful * horrid * horrible * shocking

    ugliness

    English

    (wikipedia ugliness)

    Noun

  • The condition of being ugly
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • 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.
  • An unsightly or frightful object

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    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * beauty