Word Meanings - UGLINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being ugly.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UGLINESS)

• Deformity
• Ugliness
• disfigurement
• hideousness
• abnormity
• monstrosity

Related words: (words related to UGLINESS)

• DEFORMITY
  deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
• MONSTROSITY
  The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson .
• UGLINESS
  The quality or state of being ugly.
• DISFIGUREMENT
  1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. 2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.
• ABNORMITY
  Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.