ugly
/ˈʌɡli/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʌɡli/
ugly
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short u vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
ug - ly -> ugly
Myanmar meaning
(adj) အရုပ်ဆိုးသော။ အကျည်းတန်သော။ ရုပ်ဆိုးသော။ ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်း သော။
Full entry
ugly / 'ʌgli / adj (-ier, -iest )
၁။ အရုပ်ဆိုးသော။ အကျည်းတန်သော။ an ugly face/ child/ building ❍ an ugly wound/ scar.
၂။ အရုပ်ဆိုးသော။ ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်း သော။ ugly threats/ rumours/ insinuations ❍ The situation in the streets was turning/ growing ugly. ❍ The crowd was in an ugly mood. ❍ Racial violence is beginning to rear/ raise its ugly head again.
❏ ugliness n [U] အရုပ်ဆိုးခြင်း။ အကျည်းတန် ခြင်း။
❏ ugly duckling n ဒေါင်းမျိုး။
More examples
- The other man was hideously ugly.
- She won’t wear T-shirts because she thinks her arms are ugly.
- An ugly concrete bridge
- Do you think its frame makes the picture look ugly?
- An ugly rumour
- Ugly racist propaganda
- [the ugly face of something] : Critics have described the policy as the ugly face of Republicanism.
- There were ugly scenes following the match.
- An ugly confrontation
- [turn ugly] : The situation turned ugly when one of the police officers was hit by a rock.
Synonyms
unattractive, hideous, unsightly, revolting, repulsive, aggressive, angry, animal, appalling, awful, bad-looking, bad-tempered, base, beastly, bellicose, black, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, crone, dangerous, dark, deformed, despicable, dirty, disagreeable, disfigured, disgusting, distasteful, dour, dreadful, evil, fell, filthy, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightful, gloomy, glum, grave, grievous, grisly, gross, grotesque, hard-featured, homely, horrible, horrid, hostile, ignoble, ill-favored, intimidating, loathsome, low, low-down, major, malevolent, mean, menacing, messy, misshapen, monstrous, morose, nasty, nauseous, noisome, not much to look at, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, pesky, plain, pugnacious, quarrelsome, repellent, repelling, repugnant, rough, saturnine, scandalous, scowling, serious, servile, shocking, sickening, sinister, sordid, sorry, sour, spiteful, sullen, surly, terrible, threatening, treacherous, troublesome, troublous, truculent, unbeautiful, uncomely, uninviting, unlovely, unpleasant, unprepossessing, unseemly, vexatious, vicious, vile, violent, wicked, wretched
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