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Ugliness vs Ug - What's the difference?

ugliness | ug |

As a noun ugliness

is the condition of being ugly.

As a proper noun ug is

(male).

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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    Antonyms

    * beauty

    ug

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ugge, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * ugg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Fear; horror.
  • (dialectal) A surfeit.
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    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) uggen, from (etyl) , see above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (ugg)
  • (obsolete) To feel dread, loathing or disgust.
  • (obsolete) To fear, feel horror; shudder with horror.

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    Etymology 3

    Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter .

    Symbol

    (head)

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    * English two-letter words Symbols for SI units