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单词 eyesore
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eyesore

Its energy policy makes us build lines of eyesore windmills which cost a bomb.Don't let your feet become an eyesore.Variety called it 'an eyesore for anyone above the age of ten '.That view is not shared by local residents who objected on the grounds that it was 'an eyesore '.I have a picture where you can see a pile of old mattresses in one corner; the whole thing had become an eyesore.He told of his fears the site would become an eyesore - like one he put up with next to his farm for 30 years.

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eyesore

British English: eyesore NOUN
You describe a building or place as an eyesore when it is extremely ugly and you dislike it or disapprove of it.
Poverty leads to slums, which are an eyesore and a health hazard.
  • American English: eyesore
  • Brazilian Portuguese: monstruosidade
  • Chinese: 让人看了难受的事物
  • European Spanish: monstruosidad
  • French: horreur
  • German: Schandfleck
  • Italian: pugno nell'occhio
  • Japanese: 目障りなもの
  • Korean: 눈에 거슬리는 것
  • European Portuguese: monstruosidade
  • Latin American Spanish: monstruosidad

(noun) 
Definition
something very ugly
Some people complained that the wind turbines were an eyesore.
Synonyms
mess
blight
blot
a blot on the reputation of the architectural profession
blemish
the blemish on his face
sight (informal)
The new housing estate really looks a sight.
horror
disgrace
the disgrace of having claimed a prize I didn't deserve
atrocity
Those who committed this atrocity should be punished.
ugliness
monstrosity
Most of the older buildings had been replaced by monstrosities.
disfigurement

Additional synonyms

in the sense of atrocity
Definition
an act of extreme cruelty
Those who committed this atrocity should be punished.
Synonyms
act of cruelty,
wrong,
crime,
horror,
offence,
evil,
outrage,
cruelty,
brutality,
obscenity,
wrongdoing,
enormity,
monstrosity,
transgression,
abomination,
barbarity,
villainy
in the sense of blemish
Definition
a defect
the blemish on his face
Synonyms
mark,
line,
spot,
scratch,
bruise,
scar,
blur,
defect,
flaw,
blot,
smudge,
imperfection,
speck,
blotch,
disfigurement,
pock,
smirch
in the sense of blot
Definition
a stain on one's character
a blot on the reputation of the architectural profession
Synonyms
disgrace,
spot,
fault,
stain,
scar,
defect,
flaw,
taint,
blemish,
demerit,
smirch,
blot on your escutcheon

Nearby words of
eyesore

  • eyelash
  • eyelid
  • eyesight
  • eyesore
  • eyewitness
  • fab
  • Fabian

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