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ougly

ougly is the obsolete form of ugly.

Meaning of ugly

Adjective

ugly (comparative uglier, superlative ugliest)

  1. Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
    • the ugly view of his deformed crimes1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48
  2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
  3. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
    • He played an ugly trick on us.
    Synonyms:
    corrupt, immoral, vile
  4. (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
    • an ugly temper; to feel ugly
  5. (derogatory, figuratively) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
    • an ugly customer, wound or rumor

See all 10 meanings of ugly

Forms of ougly

comparativemore ougly
superlativemost ougly

Questions about ougly

What is ougly the obsolete form of?
Ougly is the obsolete form of ugly.

Words near ougly in the dictionary

  1. oughts
  2. oughtst
  3. oughtta
  4. ougiya
  5. ougiyas
  6. ougly
  7. ouguiya
  8. ouguiyas
  9. Ouhai
  10. oui
  11. ouiaboo

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