unlovely

1. 1.

   without beauty or charm

   Synonymsunpicturesque

   Similarugly

Questions about unlovely

What does unlovely mean?

unlovely means "without beauty or charm".

How many syllables are in unlovely?

unlovely has 4 syllables: un-lo-ve-ly. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for unlovely?

Close synonyms include unpicturesque. 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.

Is unlovely a common word?

unlovely is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.