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unbeauty

unbeauty noun: lack of beauty; unattractiveness.

Noun

unbeauty (uncountable)

  1. Lack of beauty; unattractiveness.
    • And she grimaces and distorts her features while she thinks and talks, trying perhaps to distract attention from the un-beauty of her face by keeping it in motion.1982, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 44

Verb

unbeauty (third-person singular simple present unbeauties, present participle unbeautying, simple past and past participle unbeautied)

  1. (obsolete) To unbeautify.

Forms of unbeauty

third-person singular presentunbeauties
present participleunbeautying
past participleunbeautied
pastunbeautied

Origin of unbeauty

From un- + beauty.

Questions about unbeauty

What does unbeauty mean?
Unbeauty means lack of beauty; unattractiveness.
What part of speech is unbeauty?
Unbeauty can be a noun or a verb.

Words near unbeauty in the dictionary

  1. unbeautiful
  2. unbeautifully
  3. unbeautifulness
  4. unbeautify
  5. unbeautifying
  6. unbeauty
  7. unbeavered
  8. unbecalmed
  9. unbecame
  10. unbeckoned
  11. unbeclouded

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