ugly: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with U · ends with Y
Meaning of ugly
adj
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
Example: He played an ugly trick on us.
- Southern-US
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
Example: an ugly temper; to feel ugly
Listed forms: uglier, ugliest, ougly.
Source: Wiktionary — ugly.
noun
- slang, uncountable
Ugliness.
- countable, slang, uncountable
An ugly person or thing.
- countable, informal, uncountable
Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- UK, countable, dated, informal, uncountable
A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
Listed forms: uglies, ougly.
Source: Wiktionary — ugly.
verb
- nonstandard, transitive
To make ugly (sometimes with up).
Listed forms: uglies, uglying, uglied, ougly.
Source: Wiktionary — ugly.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for ugly.
adjective
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
adjective
morally reprehensible
adjective
provoking horror
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is ugly in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of ugly
U(1) + G(2) + L(1) + Y(4) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of ugly
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from ugly
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in ugly. Showing up to 24, longest first.