Ugly vs Naked - What's the difference?
ugly | naked |
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.
Not wearing any clothes; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
Unprotected; (by extension) without a condom.
Uncomfortable; as if missing something important.
(nake)
As adjectives the difference between ugly and naked
is that ugly is displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing while naked is not wearing any clothes; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.As a noun ugly
is (slang|uncountable) ugliness.As a verb naked is
(nake).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)
naked
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (m).Adjective
(en adjective)- She was as naked as the day she was born.
- This is the naked truth.
- The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
- The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.
- I entered her naked and came in her too.
- I feel naked without my mobile phone.