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butt-ugly

butt-ugly

5 9.3
Extremely unpleasant to look at
  • adjective
  • /bʌtˈʌɡli/
  • Offensive
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  • 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'.