VERBS
be, look
ADV
extremely, hideously, incredibly, really, very
The old abandoned building on our street was incredibly ugly and nobody wanted to fix it.
almost | pretty, quite, rather
VERBS
be, look, sound | get, turn
ADV
really, very
pretty, quite
The situation became quite ugly when the two neighbors started arguing about the fence.
potentially
adj
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
the ugly view of his deformed crimes
O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
He played an ugly trick on us.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
an ugly temper; to feel ugly
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound
With all this competition, expect things to get ugly.
noun
Ugliness.
I want your ugly / I want your disease.
An ugly person or thing.
Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
These are firstly for products which need a cool room; secondly for products which can be stored on a standard pallet without overhang; and thirdly for products known as "the uglies" which always overhang a standard pallet.
Non-standard products (abnormal or 'uglies'): many distribution operations are designed to cater for standard palletized products.
A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
[…] camp-stools, telescopes, poetry-books, blue uglies, red petticoats, and parasols of every hue.
verb
To make ugly (sometimes with up).
I move noiselessly, eat my food carefully without uglying the dining table with its remnants, fold my bedsheets in neat rectangles and place them on the bed in perfect symmetry.
There is time when the absence of either integrity or humility has uglied the face of the church before the world and turned Christianity into just another cocoon of condemnation and hypocrisy.
A young person who is ugly, but who is expected to become beautiful or handsome as they mature.
The ugly duckling has become a very fine swan, and Rachel Sprigg and her team have worked hard to ensure that Derby is a worthy winner of that coveted National Rail Award. They can
An American government representative, tourist, or businessperson who, in dealing with people of other nations, is haughty, rude, meddlesome, chauvinistic, or jingoistic.
The Republican House managers were acting like ugly Americans abroad who think that if they talk loudly and slowly, foreigners will understand them.
Used to describe someone who is particularly ugly or unattractive.
Someone or something unwelcome or unpleasant.
To become extremely unattractive.
the ugly view of his deformed crimes
WiktionaryO, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
WiktionaryWhen the poor man’s integuments, no longer nourished from within, become dead skin, mere adscititious leather and callosity, wearing thicker and thicker, uglier and uglier;[…]— yes then, you may say,
WiktionaryI want your ugly / I want your disease.
WiktionaryThese are firstly for products which need a cool room; secondly for products which can be stored on a standard pallet without overhang; and thirdly for products known as "the uglies" which always over
WiktionaryNon-standard products (abnormal or 'uglies'): many distribution operations are designed to cater for standard palletized products.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, ugly is marked as derogatory, figuratively, slang, informal, dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.