Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ugly
Participle: uglied
Gerund: uglying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ugly |
| you | ugly |
| he;she;it | uglies |
| we | ugly |
| you | ugly |
| they | ugly |
Perfect
| I | have uglied |
| you | have uglied |
| he;she;it | has uglied |
| we | have uglied |
| you | have uglied |
| they | have uglied |
Past
| I | uglied |
| you | uglied |
| he;she;it | uglied |
| we | uglied |
| you | uglied |
| they | uglied |
Pluperfect
| I | had uglied |
| you | had uglied |
| he;she;it | had uglied |
| we | had uglied |
| you | had uglied |
| they | had uglied |
Future
| I | will ugly |
| you | will ugly |
| he;she;it | will ugly |
| we | will ugly |
| you | will ugly |
| they | will ugly |
Future Perfect
| I | will have uglied |
| you | will have uglied |
| he;she;it | will have uglied |
| we | will have uglied |
| you | will have uglied |
| they | will have uglied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ugly |
| you | ugly |
| he;she;it | ugly |
| we | ugly |
| you | ugly |
| they | ugly |
Perfect
| I | have uglied |
| you | have uglied |
| he;she;it | have uglied |
| we | have uglied |
| you | have uglied |
| they | have uglied |
Imperfect
| I | uglied |
| you | uglied |
| he;she;it | uglied |
| we | uglied |
| you | uglied |
| they | uglied |
Pluperfect
| I | had uglied |
| you | had uglied |
| he;she;it | had uglied |
| we | had uglied |
| you | had uglied |
| they | had uglied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ugly |
| you | would ugly |
| he;she;it | would ugly |
| we | would ugly |
| you | would ugly |
| they | would ugly |
Perfect
| I | would have uglied |
| you | would have uglied |
| he;she;it | would have uglied |
| we | would have uglied |
| you | would have uglied |
| they | would have uglied |
Imperative
| you | ugly |
| we | Let's ugly |
| you | ugly |
Verbs conjugated like 'ugly'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ugly'
ally,
augle,
bugle,
bully,
cly,
cully,
fly,
fugle,
gay,
gley,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”), from uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”) (possibly related to agg (“strife, hate”)), equivalent to ug + -ly. Cognate with Scots ugly, uglie, Icelandic ugglegur. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.
2. For the meaning development compare Bulgarian грозен (grozen) (< Proto-Slavic *grozьnъ), Russian стра́шный (strášnyj) (< Proto-Slavic *strašьnъ < *straxъ); Latin foedus (< Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂-).
Sample Sentences
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I move noiselessly, eat my food carefully without uglying the dining table with its remnants, fold my bedsheets in neat rectangles and place them on the bed in perfect symmetry. [2011, P. A. Krishnan, Muddy River:]
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There is time when the absence of either integrity or humility has uglied the face of the church before the world and turned Christianity into just another cocoon of condemnation and hypocrisy. [2012, Najib George Awad, And Freedom Became a Public-square, page 197:]
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He had spent half of his journey mulling over how he would savour his revenge. He could already envision her pretty little form lying prone at his feet. He would take great pleasure in uglying her up a little before killing her. [2014, Jonathan Crocker, A Dream of Hope and Sorrow:]