Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
uglier
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for uglier.
Editorial note
My smartwatch is uglier than the apple watch, but don't think a black LED screen on a wrist is ever a good look.
Quick take
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of uglier gathered in one view.
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for uglier.
adjective
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
adjective
Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
adjective
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
adjective
(figuratively, derogatory) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
Example sentences
My smartwatch is uglier than the apple watch, but don't think a black LED screen on a wrist is ever a good look.
Also the page is uglier and takes twice as long to load as google.com (longer perceptually, I'm just going by what Safari's web inspector says).
It is unfortunately commonly done in C because you can't return multiple values and passing in pointers is uglier.
Banning, or even stigmatizing payday loans doesn't make the industry go away, it just makes it uglier.
OpenDNS is an easy way to keep the kids out of most of the uglier sites on the internet.
It might be ugly but there are more uglier things in JS:P..callbacks and so on.
There is an argument to be made that tech culture has gotten much uglier with the amount of money that poured in.
Instead, look at their 2008 designs even though they are uglier.
The charts in the demo section look uglier than Excel charts.
I've also found that Perl handles I18N, unicode and uglier things (like shift-jis) fairly well.
Once upon a time, at least that page would actually be a little easier on the eyes (and a bit uglier) thanks to Netscape's gray background.
That said Go is a uglier than a dismembered hog.
Quote examples
There's nothing in the world that can provide "freedom from terrorism" which makes it even an even uglier lie.
The April 2015 website designs looks "prettier" but as far as communicating to unknowing customers (and uninformed VCs) what Airbnb actually does, the "uglier" 2008 designs are actually better.
It advertises that it's "without promises", but then implements a remarkably Promise-like API: PS.create(someAsyncFunction, ['argOne'], callback1).then(callback2).then(callback3).run(); Really the only obvious API difference there is that starting the chain is uglier, and there's a "run()" method that has to be invoked before kicking things off.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use uglier in a sentence?
My smartwatch is uglier than the apple watch, but don't think a black LED screen on a wrist is ever a good look.
What does uglier mean?
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
What part of speech is uglier?
uglier is commonly used as adjective.