#846. Ugliness.
— N. ugliness &c. adj.; deformity, inelegance;
acomia[obs3]; disfigurement &c. (blemish) 848; want
of symmetry, inconcinnity[obs3]; distortion &c. 243;
squalor &c. (uncleanness) 653.
forbidding countenance,
vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face,
“spretae injuria formae” [Vergil].
[person who is ugly]
eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight,
fright; monster; dog[coll.], woofer[coll.], pig[coll.];
octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan|!, satyr|!,
toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop[obs3], “monstrum
horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum”
[Latin][Vergil].
V. be ugly &c. adj.;
look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make
faces.
render ugly &c. adj.;
deface; disfigure, defigure|; distort &c. 23;
blemish &c. (injure) 659; soil &c. (render unclean)
653.
Adj. ugly, ugly as sin,
ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a
dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely;
ordinary, unornamental[obs3], inartistic; unsightly,
unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless,
seemless[obs3]; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous[obs3],
unbeautiful; beautiless[obs3], semibeautiful; shapeless
&c. (amorphous) 241.
misshapen, misproportioned[obs3];
monstrous; gaunt &c. (thin) 203;
dumpy &c. (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked &c.
(distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored,
hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing,
unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.
graceless, inelegant;
ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged,
rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety;
gawky; lumping, lumpish[obs3]; lumbering; hulky[obs3],
hulking; unwieldy.
squalid, haggard; grim,
grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly;
ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome[obs3],
gruesome.
frightful, hideous,
odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive,
repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [coll.], grody
to the max [coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking &c.
(painful) 830.
foul &c. (dirty) 653;
dingy &c. (colorless) 429; gaudy &c. (color)
428; disfigured &c. v.; discolored.
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#847. Ornament.
— N. ornament, ornamentation, ornamental
art;
ornature[obs3], ornateness; adornment, decoration,
embellishment; architecture; jewelry &c. 847a.
[surface coatings for
wood: list] garnish, polish, varnish, French
polish, veneer, japanning, lacquer.
[surface coatings for
metal] gilding, plating, ormolu, enamel,
cloisonn.
[surface coatings for
human skin] cosmetics[in general], makeup; eye
shadow[list], rouge, face powder, lipstick, blush.
[ornamental surface
pattern: list] pattern, diaper, powdering,
paneling, graining, pargeting[obs3]; detail; repousse
(convexity) 250; texture &c. 329; richness; tracery,
molding, fillet, listel[obs3], strapwork[obs3], coquillage[Fr],


