unbeautiful

English

Etymology

From Middle English unbewtefull; equivalent to un- +‎ beautiful.

Adjective

unbeautiful (comparative more unbeautiful, superlative most unbeautiful)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• nonbeautiful