mindmap root((丑陋)) ugly may apply not only to what is not pleasing to the eye but to what offends another sense or gives rise to repulsion, dread, or moral distaste in the mind: a street of small drab ~ houses. hideous stresses personal reaction and the horror of loathing induced by something felt as outwardly or inwardly extremely ugly: a hurricane that caused ~ destruction. ill-favored applies especially to personal appearance and implies ugliness to the sense of sight without in itself suggesting a resulting distaste or dread: self-conscious about his ~ features. unsightly is likely to refer to a material thing on which the eye dwells on without pleasure and connotes a suggestion of distaste: a dump that sat on a ~ blot on the landscape.