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say it: UH-glee
ugly is an adjective meaning "displeasing to the senses". It is pronounced /ˈʌɡli/ — UH-glee. It carries 4 recorded senses.
displeasing to the senses
“an ugly face”
“ugly furniture”
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
“a surly waiter”
“an ugly frame of mind”
provoking horror
“an atrocious automobile accident”
“a frightful crime of decapitation”
“an alarming, even horrifying, picture”
“war is beyond all words horrible”
“an ugly wound”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ugly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.