ugly

adj 1: displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly

face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly" [ant: {beautiful}]

2: deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"

3: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;

"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: {surly}]

4: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as

murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery

appalled them" [syn: {despicable}, {vile}, {unworthy}]

5: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a

baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone

became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";

"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his

threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation

became ugly" [syn: {baleful}, {forbidding}, {menacing}, {minacious},

{minatory}, {ominous}, {sinister}, {threatening}]

6: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a

frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even

horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"-

Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious}, {frightful},

{horrifying}, {horrible}]