Brooke vs Ugly - What's the difference?
brooke | ugly |
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.
As nouns the difference between brooke and ugly
is that brooke is while ugly is (slang|uncountable) ugliness.As a verb brooke
is .As an adjective ugly is
displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.brooke
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* Brook (wikipedia Brooke)Quotations
* 1993 , Devil's Waltz , Random House 1998, ISBN 0345460715, page 85 *: "Cassie B.," I said. "What does the B. stand for?" *: "Brooks - that was my maiden name. It's sort of a tribute to Aunt Harriet. It's not exactly feminine, I guess. Brooke' with an e would have been more of a girl's name. Like ' Brooke Shields. But I wanted to remember Aunt Harriet."Anagrams
* *ugly
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* (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)