nonbeautiful

English

Alternative forms
  • non-beautiful

Etymology

non- +‎ beautiful

Adjective

nonbeautiful (not comparable)

  1. Not beautiful.
    • 2000, Peggy Zeglin Brand, Beauty matters:
      The beautiful exterior is taken as a sign of inward or moral goodness; the nonbeautiful or ugly exterior is often imagined to correlate with evil...
    • 1997, Trudy Govier, A practical study of argument:
      But notice that nonbeautiful does not mean the same as ugly. It is not true that every item in the universe is either beautiful or ugly.

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