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Definition: UNHANDSOME |
UNHANDSOMEAdjective1. Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. 2. Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. 3. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. |
Date "UNHANDSOME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Undignified, indign; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "UNHANDSOME" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNHANDSOME" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "UNHANDSOME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unmannerly), i shëmtuar (disfigured, frightful, haggish, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, oaf, ugly, uncomely, unsightly), brutal (bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, Randy, rank, rusty, slangy, truculent, unfinished, unrefined). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير لائق (incongruous, indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, unsuitable), بشع (atrocious, grasping, grievous, gruesome, hideous, homely, horrid, shapeless, ugly, ungainly, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references) | |
Czech | nehezký (unattractive). (various references) | |
Farsi | نامناسب (Improper, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inapt, Incommensurate, Incompetent, Infelicitous, Inopportune, Malapropos, Unapt, Unfit, Unmeet, Unrighteous, Unsuitable, Untoward), نامطبوع (Hard, Nasty, Rancid, Ungraceful, Ungracious, Unpleasant), نازیبا (Inelegant, Unbecoming, Ungraceful, Unseemly, Unworthy), ناصواب (Ungracious), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful). (various references) | |
French | indécent (unseemly), disgracieux (ungainly, unruly, unsightly). (various references) | |
German | unschön (inelegant, plain, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, unbecoming, uneloquent, ungainly, unhandsomely, unlovely, unpicturesque, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csúf (disfigured, ugly, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Manx | meewoyagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andsomeunhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pouco generoso, mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy), feio (fearful, frightful, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, shapeless, ugly, uncomely, unlovely, unseemly, unsightly), desgracioso (awkward, ungainly, ungraceful, ungracious), deselegante (crude, dowdy, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, shapeless, uncomely, ungainly, ungraceful). (various references) | |
Russian | нелюбезный (disobliging, unaffable, ungracious), неблагородный (ignoble). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ružan (homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, ugly, uncomely, unshapely, unsightly). (various references) | |
Turkish | uygunsuz (derogatory, illegitimate, impolitic, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineligible, inexpedient, infelicitous, malapropos, near the knuckle, obnoxious, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncalled for, unchristian, uncomely, unpropitious, unseemly, unsuitable, untoward, wrong), yakışıksız (exceptionable), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu xí (ill-looking, unformed, unsightly), xấu bủn xỉn, không rộng rãi, không h o hiệp (unchivalrous, unknightly). (various references) | |
Welsh | anhardd (ugly, unseemly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNHANDSOME": unhandsomely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "UNHANDSOME" (pronounced 'Un*hand"some'): Awesome, Awsome, Blithesome, Brightsome, Darksome, fulsome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, Gleesome, handsome, irksome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, Mirksome, Noisome, Pithsome, Playsome, Roomsome, tiresome, toilsome, toothsome, Twigsome, Ugsome, Welsome, Wholesome, Wieldsome, Willsome, Winsome, Wlatsome, Woesome, Youthsome. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-m-n-n-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: handsome, houseman, madhouse, mundanes, soundman, soundmen, unshamed. | |
-3 letters: adnouns, daemons, duennas, mannose, masoned, medusan, monades, mundane, noumena, osmunda, sandmen, shunned, unhands, unnamed. | |
-4 letters: adnoun, amends, amused, anodes, ashmen, daemon, damson, demons, desman, donnas, doumas, duenna, dunams, hansom, hausen, hennas, honans, hondas, hounds, housed, humane, humans, mahoes, manned, mashed, maunds, medusa, menads, moaned, monads. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-m-n-n-o-s-u" | |
+2 letters: unhandsomely. | |
+5 letters: dehumanizations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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