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butt-ugly

butt-ugly

5 9.3
Extremely unpleasant to look at
  • adjective
  • /bʌtˈʌɡli/
  • Offensive
: feísimo
  • She covered her butt-ugly wallpaper with a fresh coat of paint for a better look.
  • looked butt-ugly
  • get your butt-ugly
  • see your butt-ugly

Examples

  • After seeing the butt-ugly design of the product, I decided not to buy it.

  • The early models really were butt ugly!

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  • Ever notice how "Red" states are butt-ugly places to live?

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  • Besides, that man is butt ugly with that smug smirk on his face.

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  • It's like, everyone here is a beautiful swan and then boom, I'm the butt-ugly duckling.

  • The guy is butt-ugly.

  • She's butt ugly.

  • She's butt-ugly.

  • The old building was so butt-ugly that no one wanted to take photos in front of it.

Synonyms

ugly
vsbutt-ugly
866 1.0

Not pleasant to look at

is stronger in degree, used to stress extreme visual unpleasantness
hideous
vsbutt-ugly
171 5.1

Very ugly and likely to make people feel shocked or disgusted

is extreme in appearance but more colloquial than formal shock language
unattractive
vsbutt-ugly
37 1.8

Not pleasant to look at or to the senses

is much stronger, used to stress extreme visual unpleasantness
unsightly
vsbutt-ugly
15 4.5

Unpleasant to look at

is about stronger overall visual unpleasantness rather than mere displeasing look
unappealing
vsbutt-ugly
15 4.1

Not attractive, pleasant, or interesting

focuses specifically on extreme visual unpleasantness rather than general disinterest
fugly
vsbutt-ugly
  • Offensive
3 9.9

Very ugly in an informal, rude way

is similarly harsh but less slangy and more widely understood
ugly as sin
vsbutt-ugly
  • Offensive
2 7.2

Very unpleasant to look at or to be with

is equally extreme but used more casually and emphatically in speech

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

Pleasant to see, hear, or think about

680 1.0

Pleasing to look at or enjoy and making people interested

How Ugly

butt-ugly
  • Offensive
5 9.3
hideous
171 5.1
ugly
866 1.0
unattractive
37 1.8
plain
50 2.5

Surface Forms

butt-ugly positive

Morphology

butt-ugly = ugly (semi-transparent) = butt + ugly

Formally built from 'butt' + 'ugly' where 'butt-' functions as an informal intensifier; the intensifying sense is colloquial and not fully predictable from the parts for an average learner.

Etymology

Butt-ugly comes from butt ('bottom') and ugly ('very unpleasant to look at'). A helpful way to remember it is that butt is a rude way to make ugly stronger, so butt-ugly means 'extremely unattractive'.