unsightly

1. 1.

   unpleasant to look at

   “unsightly billboards”

   Similarugly

Questions about unsightly

What does unsightly mean?

unsightly means "unpleasant to look at".

How many syllables are in unsightly?

unsightly has 3 syllables: un-sight-ly. The stress falls on "sight". In IPA it is /ənˈsaɪtli/.

Is unsightly a common word?

unsightly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.