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unlovely

unlovely adjective: unattractive, ugly.

Adjective

unlovely (comparative unlovelier, superlative unloveliest)

  1. unattractive, ugly
    • But while she was resolved to say an affectionate farewell to Philip, how she looked forward to that evening walk in the still, fleckered shade of the hollows, away from all that was harsh and unlovely; […]1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons
    • […] an ocean of dereliction, blackened tenements, public drunkenness, dozens of unlovely skyscrapers, featureless housing schemes. It was as if this was all that Glasgow deserved. And yet the city still had a lot of bazazz.1990, Seán Damer, Glasgow: Going for a Song, page 203

Noun

unlovely (plural unlovelies)

  1. An unattractive or ugly thing or person.
    • A hairless runt of a mutt named Chi-chi defeated them all in the 13th annual Ugliest Dog in the World contest: such unlovelies as the moth-eaten chow and the bulldog with a bad eye.1982, United Press International, "Clearly, an ugly dog", 2 August.
    • But the uptake of Irish studies by a range of migrant unlovelies clearly involves their expressing a quality of interest in the subject distinguishable from the harmless "inherent interest" which she so values and which presumably is palpable to "anybody", other than them.1997, Sabina Sharkey, “Irish Cultural Studies and the Politics of Irish Studies”, in Jim McGuigan, editor, Cultural Methodologies, SAGE, page 156

unlovely meaning in Hindi

unlovely in Hindi

unlovely, unpleasant, disagreeable
अप्रिय apriya

Forms of unlovely

Adjective
comparativeunlovelier
superlativeunloveliest
Noun
pluralunlovelies

Origin of unlovely

From Middle English unlovely, onlovely, unlovelich, equivalent to un- + lovely.

Words formed from unlovely

Questions about unlovely

What does unlovely mean?
Unlovely means unattractive, ugly.
What is unlovely in Hindi?
Unlovely in Hindi is अप्रिय (apriya). See Unlovely meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unlovely?
Unlovely can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near unlovely in the dictionary

  1. unlovelies
  2. unloveliest
  3. unlovelily
  4. unloveliness
  5. unlovelinesses
  6. unlovely
  7. unlover-like
  8. unloverlike
  9. unloverliness
  10. unloverly
  11. unloves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlovely (page history and authors); अप्रिय (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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