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ugliness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unattractiveness |
| Synonyms: | disfigurement, hideousness, homeliness, monstrousness, offensiveness, plainness, repulsiveness, unseemliness, unsightliness |
| Antonyms: | attraction, attractiveness, beauty, fairness, handsomeness |
| Concept: | Ugliness. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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ugliness; deformity, inelegance; acomia; disfigurement (blemish); want of symmetry, inconcinnity; distortion; squalor (uncleanness)., forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae" [Vergil]., eyesore, object, figure, sight, fright, octopus, specter, scarecrow, hag, harridan, satyr, witch, toad, baboon, monster, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum" [Vergil].
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| Antonyms: | beauty |
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| Main Entry: | contortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion, mutilation |
| Synonyms: | anamorphosis, crookedness, deformation, deformity, dislocation, grimace, malformation, misproportion, misshapement, pout, twist, ugliness, unsightliness, wryness |
| Antonyms: | beauty, smoothness |
| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, corruption, crookedness, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, grossness, hideousness, impairment, injury, irregularity, knot, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, ugliness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness, warp |
| Antonyms: | beauty, grace, shapeliness |
| Main Entry: | fright |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horrifying or unpleasant sight |
| Synonyms: | bother, eyesore, frump, mess, monstrosity, nuisance, scarecrow, ugliness |
| Antonyms: | beauty |
| Main Entry: | unpleasantness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement |
| Synonyms: | argument, bother, conflict, disharmony, dispute, disturbance, quarrel, trouble, ugliness |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
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| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
askew, awry, bandy, bandy, bloodshot, bobtailed, bow, bunchbacked, claudicant, club, cratered, crooked, crooked, crooked as a rainbow, curtailed of one's fair proportions, decollated, deformed, discolored, distorted, foveate, freckled, gaunt, gnarled, grotesque, hip, hipshot, hunchbacked, ill, imperfect, injured, irregular, knock, mammoxed, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, not straight, not true, on one side, out of shape, pitted, pouty, round, skew, splay, taliped, uloid, unsymmetric, wapperjawed, warped, wry, wry
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