Messy vs Ugly - What's the difference?
messy | ugly | Synonyms |
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
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* (William Shakespeare)
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.
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, title= Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
(slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
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(slang) An ugly person or thing.
(UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
Messy is a synonym of ugly.
As nouns the difference between messy and ugly
is that messy is while ugly is (slang|uncountable) ugliness.As an adjective ugly is
displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.messy
English
Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}
Synonyms
(in a disorderly state) untidy, chaotic, disorderly, clutteredAntonyms
* neat * orderlyDerived terms
* messily * messinessDescendants
* German: (l)External links
* *ugly
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- the ugly view of his deformed crimes
- O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
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.}}
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 alsoAntonyms
* (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) moralDerived terms
* uggo * ugly duckling * uglification * uglifyNoun
- I want your ugly / I want your disease.
- (Charles Kingsley)