ugliness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition of being ugly. countable,uncountable
    — His best friend would not have called him good-looking, but he was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner.
  2. An unsightly or frightful object. countable,uncountable
    — Then she wrote back to me, responding to everything I wrote but this reference to love and sex […] A week or so went by, and she called. She was worried about me, wanted me to be careful, wanted to be happy, but she said that she had ignored that "ugliness" in my letter.
  3. Unpleasant behaviour. countable,uncountable
    — There was some ugliness at the council meeting.

词形变化

uglinesses plural uglinesse alternative

词汇关系

近义词
ugliness repulsiveness homeliness
反义词
beauty
上位词
guise
下位词
hideosity hideousness
相关词
ugly

词源

Etymology tree
English ugly
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English ugliness
From ugly + -ness.
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