ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

artistic, artistical † ; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre [Fr.]; wellcomposed,
well grouped, well varied; curious.
enchanting &c (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming &c (accordant) 23; ornamental &c
847.
undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless &c (perfect) 650.
Phr. auxilium non leve vultus habet [Lat.] [Ovid]; beauty born of murmuring sound
[Wordsworth]; flowers preach to us if we will hear [C.G.
Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat.] [Vergil]; none but the
brave deserve the fair [Dryden]; thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty [Byron].
846. Ugliness -- N. ugliness &c adj.; deformity, inelegance; acomia † ; disfigurement &c
(blemish) 848; want of symmetry, inconcinnity † ; distortion &c 243; squalor &c
(uncleanness) 653.
forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae
[Vergil].
[person who is ugly] eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog
[Coll.], woofer [Coll.], pig [Coll.]; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan † , satyr † , toad,
monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop † , monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen
ademptum [Lat.] [Vergil].
V. be ugly &c adj.; look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces.
render ugly &c adj.; deface; disfigure, defigure † ; distort &c 23; blemish &c (injure)
659; soil &c (render unclean) 653.
Adj. ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain,
bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental † , inartistic; unsightly, unseemly,
uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless † ; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous † ,
unbeautiful; beautiless † , semibeautiful; shapeless &c (amorphous) 241.
misshapen, misproportioned † ; monstrous; gaunt &c (thin) 203; dumpy &c (short) 201;
curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked &c
(distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; illlooking;
unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.
graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude,
awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish † ; lumbering; hulky † ,
hulking; unwieldy.
squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death
like; cadaverous, grewsome † , gruesome.
frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant,
grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking &c
(painful) 830.
foul &c (dirty) 653; dingy &c (colorless) 429; gaudy &c (color) 428; disfigured &c v.;
discolored.
847. Ornament -- N. ornament, ornamentation, ornamental art; ornature † , ornateness;
adornment, decoration, embellishment; architecture; jewelry &c 847.1.
[surface coatings for wood: list] garnish, polish, varnish, French polish, veneer,
japanning, lacquer.
[surface coatings for metal] gilding, plating, ormolu, enamel, cloisonn_e.