Word Meanings - ILL-LOOKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ILL-LOOKING)

• Ugly
• Loathsome
• hideous
• hateful
• frightful
• uncouth
• ill-favored
• unsightly
• ill-looking
• plain
• homely
• deformed
• monstrous
• ungainly

Related words: (words related to ILL-LOOKING)

• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• PLAINT
  A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
• FRIGHTFULNESS
  The quality of being frightful.
• PLAINLY
  In a plain manner; clearly.
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• PLAIN-SPOKEN
  Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
• PLAINTLESS
  Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
• PLAIN-HEARTED
  Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• HOMELYN
  The European sand ray ; -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
• DEFORMITY
  deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
• PLAINSMAN
  One who lives in the plains.
• HIDEOUS
  hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
• PLAIN-DEALING
  Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.