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单词 unbeautiful
释义

unbeautifuladj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈbjuːtᵻf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˌənˈbjudəfəl/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and beautiful adj., n., and adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, beautiful adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + beautiful adj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective]
unfairc888
unhonestc1384
unlovesomec1390
uncomelya1400
unfreelya1400
unlovelyc1400
unbeautiful1495
beautiless1531
unpretty1562
unhandsomea1586
loveless1601
featureless1609
invenust1623
unhighted?1630
unbeauteousa1660
plain1675
wanliesum1818
unbonny1830
ordinary1847
plainish1856
unsonsy1894
1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (W. de W.) xix. viii. hh vij b/2 Euery mannes face is moste made bewtefull or vnbewtefull with colour.
1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 60 Both fayre and foule, beautiful and unbeautiful, go so al alike, that none can know the fair from the foule.
1647 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 503 If we..by..adorning it [sc. guilt] with specious Excuses..render it less unbeautiful and unpleasant to our View.
a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 540 To..deny him this, is to frame him as an unbeautiful Monster, a Deformed power.
1727 South's 12 Serm. (ed. 6) III. 434 I cannot persuade myself, that God ever designed his Church for a rude, naked, unbeautiful [1698–1722 Unbeautified] Lump.
1868 A. C. Swinburne in D. G. Rossetti & A. C. Swinburne Notes Royal Acad. Exhib. ii. 379 No good art is unbeautiful; but much able and effective work may be, and is.
1879 Ld. Tennyson Lover's Tale (new ed.) 27 Nothing in nature is unbeautiful.
absolute.1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 299 Once the unbeautiful puts her foot in anywhere, there..she remains.

Derivatives

unˈbeautifully adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adverb]
unlovesomec1390
uncomelily1658
unprettily1845
unbeautifully1847
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Unbeautifully.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 5 Mar. (1956) VII. 111 The margin seems perilously and unbeautifully narrow.
1922 Daily Mail 23 Nov. 8 A Frenchwoman would as soon be seen in shabby shoes as with wisps of hair escaping unbeautifully from her coiffure.
1984 A. Price Sion Crossing xi. 222 His lip twisted unbeautifully.
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unˈbeautifulness n. (1727 Bailey).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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