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to be an ugly sight

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  • ugly — ugly, hideous, ill favored, unsightly are comparable when they mean contrary to what is beautiful or pleasing especially to the sight. Ugly is the comprehensive term which may apply not only to what is distasteful to the sight but also to the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Ugly — Ug ly, a. [Compar. {Uglier}; superl. {Ugliest}.] [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + ligr (akin to E. ly, like). ??. Cf. {Awe}.] 1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sight to behold — If something is a sight to behold, it means that seeing it is in some way special, either spectacularly beautiful or, equally, incredibly ugly or revolting, etc …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • sight — n. view 1) to catch; keep sight of 2) to lose sight of 3) at (the) sight (to faint at the sight of blood; to fall in love at first sight) 4) by sight (to know smb. by sight) 5) in, within sight (the ship was no longer in sight) 6) on sight (to… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Ugly Betty (season 3) — infobox tvseason season name = Ugly Betty (season 3) caption = Ugly Betty s innertitle dvd release date = dvd format = country= USA network =ABC first aired =September 25, 2008 last aired =Spring 2009 num episodes = prev season = 2 next season =… …   Wikipedia

  • sight — Synonyms and related words: Anschauung, aim, aim at, airscape, amazement, angle, angle of vision, assumption, astonishing thing, astonishment, atrocity, attitude, awe inspiring, baboon, bag, barrel, basis, batch, behold, bend, blemish, blot,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • sight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vision, eyesight; view, vista, scene; appearance, aspect, look; spectacle, display; visibility; aim, observation; eyesore (see ugliness). at sight II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The power of seeing] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

  • ugly — I. adjective (uglier; est) Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse uggligr, from uggr fear; akin to Old Norse ugga to fear Date: 13th century 1. frightful, dire 2. a. offensive to the sight ; hideous …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • ugly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. repulsive (see ugliness); disagreeable, unpleasant; mean, hostile, quarrelsome. See unsavoriness, contention. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ill favored] Syn. unsightly, loathsome, hideous, homely,… …   English dictionary for students

  • ugly — [13] Ugly originally meant ‘horrible, frightening’; ‘offensive to the sight’ is a secondary development, first recorded in the 14th century. The word was borrowed from Old Norse uggligr, a derivative of the verb ugga ‘fear’. In the early 1930s it …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • ugly — [13] Ugly originally meant ‘horrible, frightening’; ‘offensive to the sight’ is a secondary development, first recorded in the 14th century. The word was borrowed from Old Norse uggligr, a derivative of the verb ugga ‘fear’. In the early 1930s it …   Word origins

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