unbeautiful
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- + beautiful.
Adjective
[edit]unbeautiful (comparative more unbeautiful, superlative most unbeautiful)
- Not beautiful; ugly or inelegant.
- 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:
- From here, over the low summit at Clay Cross and down the Erewash Valley, was one long and unbeautiful replica of the road from Leeds.
- 1983 December 10, Jolanta Benal, “The Second Revolution”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
- The movie looks like battlefield documentary, grainy and (purposely) unbeautiful.