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ugliest

ugliest is the superlative 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

Questions about ugliest

What is ugliest the superlative form of?
Ugliest is the superlative form of ugly.

Words near ugliest in the dictionary

  1. uglied up
  2. uglier
  3. uglier than homemade soap
  4. uglies
  5. uglies up
  6. ugliest
  7. uglification
  8. uglifications
  9. uglified
  10. uglifier
  11. uglifiers

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