bad looker
- noun
- Offensive
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feo
- You know, she wouldn't be a bad looker if she took her specs off.
Examples
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And you're not a bad looker either.
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Even though he's considered a bad looker, he has a lot of friends because of his kind heart.
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And I ain't a bad looker, either.
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Despite his charming personality, he is often called a bad looker because of his unconventional features.
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She has a great sense of style, but many think she is a bad looker and doesn't fit traditional beauty standards.
Synonyms
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9.9
A stone figure on a building or a person who looks ugly
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2.0
A person or thing that is not pleasant to look at
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9.9
A rude name for a person people think is very ugly
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9.9
An insulting name for someone considered very ugly
Antonyms
How Attractive
Surface Forms
Morphology
bad + looker
The noun 'looker' is transparently derived from 'look' + the agentive suffix -er (someone who looks a certain way), and 'bad' straightforwardly modifies that notion of appearance. A B1 learner who knows 'bad', 'look', and basic -er nominalization can infer 'someone who looks bad/unattractive', so the meaning is compositional and immediately derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Bad looker may come from the simple contrast with good-looking, giving a clear picture of a looker who is bad to look at. That's why it means 'not attractive'.