uglisome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by ugliness
Example Sentences
- "The sun climbed higher and beads of moisture formed at her hairline before Sir Hopkin deigned to poke his uglisome head out."
- "And treated our fathers like scum, / Those uglisome messiahs that Bade us come, [...]"
- "Devilish heads, five cubits in bigness from brow to chin, were carven in high relief along the five other walls: thirteen heads in all, very deformed and uglisome, laying out their tongues; and on the end of each tongue was stood a lamp brightly burning, and the eyes of the great faces were looking-glasses nicely cut up with facets to throw back the rays of the lamps, so that the whole banquet-room was lit with a brilliance of lamplight."
Etymology
From ugly + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more uglisome (comparative)
most uglisome (superlative)