Ugly vs. Pretty

Displeasing to the eye; unsightly.

Pleasing or attractive in a graceful or delicate way.

Repulsive or offensive; objectionable

Clever; adroit

Chiefly Southern US Rude

Very bad; terrible

New England Unmanageable. Used of animals, especially cows or horses.

Ostensibly or superficially attractive but lacking substance or conviction

Morally reprehensible; bad.

(Informal) Considerable in size or extent

Threatening or ominous

To a fair degree; moderately

Likely to cause embarrassment or trouble

In a pretty manner; prettily or pleasingly.

Marked by or inclined to anger or bad feelings; disagreeable

One that is pretty.

One that is ugly.

Pretties Delicate clothing, especially lingerie.

Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.

To make pretty

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.

Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.

(Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

Cunning; clever, skilful.

Ugliness.

(dated) Moderately large; considerable.

(slang) An ugly person or thing.

(dated) Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).

Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.

(ironic) Awkward, unpleasant.

A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.

Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.

To make ugly (sometimes with up).

(dialect) Prettily, in a pretty manner.

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

Something that is pretty.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

To make pretty; to beautify

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.

To make ugly.

Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.

Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting;

Affectedly nice; foppish; - used in an ill sense.

Deficient in beauty;

Mean; despicable; contemptible; - used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;

Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.

Morally reprehensible;

In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; - less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

Pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing;

Provoking horror;

(used ironically) unexpectedly bad;

Used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain);