uglify

English

Etymology

From ugly +‎ -fy. Sense 3 by analogy with prettify.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌɡlɪfaɪ/

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Verb

uglify (third-person singular simple present uglifies, present participle uglifying, simple past and past participle uglified)

1. (transitive) To make ugly; to destroy or worsen the appearance or attractiveness of.
   • 1792, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 345:

     She uglifies every thing near her.

2. (intransitive) To become ugly.
   • 1986, Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears:

     Inevitably those bodies age and uglify under her influence, but if they are outstandingly beautiful at the outset, that process takes longer.

4. (programming) Synonym of minify.

   Antonyms: pretty-print, beautify, prettify

Synonyms

• deface
• deform
• disfigure

Antonyms

• beautify

Derived terms

• uglification

Related terms

• vilify

Translations

to make ugly

• Bulgarian: загрозявам (bg) (zagrozjavam)
• Catalan: enlletgir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醜化 / 丑化 (zh) (chǒuhuà)

• Esperanto: malbeligi
• Finnish: rumentaa (fi)
• French: enlaidir (fr)
• German: verunstalten (de), hässlich machen, häßlich machen (obsolete spelling)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: ledeskar (io)
• Japanese: 醜くする (ja) (minikuku suru), 醜化する (shūka suru)
• Latin: dēformāre (la)
• Macedonian: нагрдува (nagrduva)
• Portuguese: enfear (pt)
• Spanish: afear (es)
• Swedish: förfula (sv)
• Welsh: hagru (cy), anharddu (cy)