unsightly
/ʌnˈsaɪtli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Displeasing to the eye.
Example Sentences
- "“She had grown used to the quick speech of these people, but she wished he would not lick his lips that way. It did not make him any harder to understand, but it was unsightly.""
- "The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job."
- "Last year, the City Council passed my bill, the Rat Act (Int. 1123), to expand containerization citywide and finally get those unsightly heaps of trash bags off our sidewalks."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sightly English unsightly From un- + sightly.
Inflected Forms
more unsightly (comparative)
unsightlier (comparative, dated)
most unsightly (superlative)
unsightliest (dated, superlative)