单词 | unbeautiful |
释义 | unbeautifuladj. (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. 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. Thesaurus » unˈbeautifulness n. (1727 Bailey). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1495 |
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