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unbeautiful

unbeautiful adjective: not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.

Adjective

unbeautiful (comparative more unbeautiful, superlative most unbeautiful)

  1. Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
    • From here, over the low summit at Clay Cross and down the Erewash Valley, was one long and unbeautiful replica of the road from Leeds.1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 83
    • The movie looks like battlefield documentary, grainy and (purposely) unbeautiful.1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14
    Synonyms:
    nonbeautiful

Synonyms of unbeautiful

Forms of unbeautiful

comparativemore unbeautiful
superlativemost unbeautiful

Origin of unbeautiful

From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful.

Words formed from unbeautiful

Questions about unbeautiful

What does unbeautiful mean?
Unbeautiful means not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
What part of speech is unbeautiful?
Unbeautiful is an adjective.

Words near unbeautiful in the dictionary

  1. unbeauteous
  2. unbeauteousness
  3. unbeautifiable
  4. unbeautified
  5. unbeautifies
  6. unbeautiful
  7. unbeautifully
  8. unbeautifulness
  9. unbeautify
  10. unbeautifying
  11. unbeauty

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