unbeautiful

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adjective

Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveunbeautiful (comparative more unbeautiful, superlative most unbeautiful)

comparative more unbeautiful · superlative most unbeautiful

  1. Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.

    The movie looks like battlefield documentary, grainy and (purposely) unbeautiful.

    1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14
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    From here, over the low summit at Clay Cross and down the Erewash Valley, was one long and unbeautiful replica of the road from Leeds.

    1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 83

    Synonyms: nonbeautiful

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot beautiful; ugly or inelegant.

Also see

Origin

  1. Middle Englishunbewtefull
  2. Englishunbeautiful

From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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