ugliness

Other forms of ugliness

plural

uglinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ugliness

What does ugliness mean?

ugliness means "qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ugliness?

ugliness has 3 syllables: ug-li-ness. The stress falls on "ug". In IPA it is /ˈʌɡlinəs/.

What is another word for ugliness?

Close synonyms include nefariousness, wickedness, vileness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ugliness?

The recorded antonyms are beauty.

Is ugliness a common word?

ugliness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.