Meanings
comparative more unbeautiful · superlative most unbeautiful
- 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 141 more example
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 83Synonyms: nonbeautiful
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
Origin
- Middle Englishunbewtefull
- Englishunbeautiful
From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful.
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