ugly
adjective
uk/ˈʌɡ.li/us/ˈʌɡ.li/uglyadjective(NOT ATTRACTIVE)
B1
unpleasanttolookat; notattractive:
丑陋的，难看的Ithinka lot ofmodernarchitectureis very ugly.我觉得很多现代建筑都非常难看。
Yesterday Isawthe ugliestbabyI'veeverseenin mylife.昨天我看见了有生以来见过的最丑的婴儿。
Ifeelreallyfatand ugly today.今天我感觉自己真是又胖又丑。
He was a reallyunpleasantman andasuglyassin(= very ugly).他是一个非常讨厌的人，而且丑得要命。
Synonyms
ghastlyUKinformal
grim(UNPLEASANT)informal
grotesque(UGLY)
hideous
unattractive
unprepossessing
unsightlyformal
- Thispartof theoldtownhas beendisfiguredby ugly newbuildings.
- Concern about the uglyeffectsofindustrializationhasledto thegreeningof many ofourcities.
- Most of thefurnitureis so ugly, you wouldn't give ithouse-room.
- Ascreenoftreesat thebottomof thegardenhidthe uglyfactorywalls.
- He's an uglybruiser- I wouldn't like tomeethim down adarkalley!
Not attractive to look at
- back end
- be no oil paintingidiom
- be not much to look atidiom
- bleakly
- bleakness
- chintzy
- excrescence
- gopping
- gracelessly
- hatchet-faced
- have a face like the back end of a busidiom
- hideous
- hideousness
- plug-ugly
- pretty
- pretty-pretty
- reptilian
- scrappily
- vulgarity
- vulgarly
uglyadjective(THREATENING)
C2
unpleasantandthreateningorviolent:
讨厌的；危险的；暴力的There were uglyscenesoutsidethestadium.体育场外发生了暴力事件。
Thedemonstrationturnedugly when agroupofprotestersstartedtothrowbottlesat thepolice.一群示威者开始向警察投掷瓶子，示威游行于是演变成了暴力事件。
Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggressively
- aggressiveness
- aggro
- agonistic
- ferocity
- fierce
- fierceness
- fighting words
- flex
- pugnacious
- pugnacity
- rabble-rousing
- raging
- Rambo
- viciousness
- violence
- warlike
- warmonger
- warmongering