What is the difference between ugly and beautiful?
ugly | beautiful |
Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
* Spenser
* (William Shakespeare)
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.
*, chapter=12
, title= Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
(slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
* 2009 : (Lady Gaga) and (RedOne), "(Bad Romance)":
(slang) An ugly person or thing.
(UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
Attractive and possessing charm.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
(as a pro-sentence ) How beautiful that is!
(as a pro-sentence; ironic ) How unfortunate that is!
Beautiful is a antonym of ugly.
As adjectives the difference between ugly and beautiful
is that ugly is displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing while beautiful is attractive and possessing charm.As a noun ugly
is ugliness.ugly
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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)
beautiful
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
- (referring to an athlete catching a ball)