ill-favored

adjective

Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.

Similar
ill-favouredugly
Opposite
well-favoured
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Meanings

adjectiveill-favored (comparative more ill-favored, superlative most ill-favored)

comparative more ill-favored · superlative most ill-favored · alternative ill-favoured

  1. Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.

    And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 41:4

    Antonyms: well-favoured

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveUnattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.

Opposite
well-favoured

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveusually used of a face

Similar
ill-favouredugly

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian грозен
  • грозен (grozen)ugly
German unschön, unvorteilhaft aussehend
  • unschönugly
  • unvorteilhaft aussehendugly
  • hässlichugly
Cite this entry
APA

ill-favored. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ill-favored

MLA

“ill-favored.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ill-favored. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ill-favored,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ill-favored.

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