英语词汇“ugly”的释义、区别辨析及用法例句-英语同义词词典

单词	ugly
例句	uglyugly /ˈʌgli/ adjective ► ugly extremely unpleasant to look at. You can use ugly about people, places, or things: The witch was an ugly old woman with a long bent nose. It is one of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen. ► unattractive unattractive means the same as ugly but sounds more formal and more polite: At 16, I felt skinny and unattractive. The neighborhood was gray and unattractive. ► plain a plain woman or girl is not beautiful or attractive: She was a plain girl, but her eyes were nice. ► homely a homely person is not attractive. Homely is less attractive than plain. Homely is usually used about men, but it can also be used about women: He showed me a photo of his brother, a homely boy with teeth that stuck out and hair in all the wrong places. ➔ Plain and homely are more polite ways of saying that someone is unattractive. ► hideous extremely ugly. You use hideous especially about things or places, and if you use it about people it sounds very rude: He was wearing a brown suit with a hideous green and orange tie. ► grotesque ugly in a way that is very strange and frightening: In my dream, I was being chased by a grotesque monster with two heads and a long tail. ANTONYMS ➔ see beautiful ➔ see Describing People’s LooksADVERBS: uglyYou can make the adjectives unattractive, hideous, and grotesque into adverbs by using an -ly ending: The house is unattractively decorated. \| The monsters in the movie are hideously ugly. \| The man's body had been grotesquely injured.Ugly and homely look like adverbs, but they are adjectives.
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