Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bad-looking

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.25 in modern English

Syllables: bad-look-ing
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not pleasing to the eye; unattractive.

Example Sentences

"This was the worst-looking house on the street. Why had he taken it on? He'd told her that he was planning to do most of the renovation work himself."
"Aside from being desirable on macroeconomic grounds, a policy of the lowest possible unemployment would create the additional benefit of reducing the earnings disadvantage of bad-looking workers; and it might even spill over to their treatment in other areas."

Etymology

From bad + looking.

Inflected Forms

more bad-looking (comparative) worse-looking (comparative) most bad-looking (superlative) worst-looking (superlative)

Antonyms

good-looking nice-looking

Questions

What does bad-looking mean?: Not pleasing to the eye; unattractive.
Where does bad-looking come from?: From bad + looking.

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