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Definition: Eyesore |
EyesoreNoun1. Something very ugly and offensive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eyesore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blemish | Noun: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism; flaw, defect; (imperfection) ; injury; (deterioration); spots on the sun; eyesore. |
Ugliness | Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eyesore |
| Specialty definitions using "eyesore": Bête Noire. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Eyesore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.70% of the time. "Eyesore" is used about 77 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 98.7% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eyesore": be an eyesore to ♦ be an eyesore to smb.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eyesore | 6 |
eyesore lyrics | 3 |
eyesore found glory lyrics new | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eyesore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shëmti (ugliness), pamje që të vret sytë (harshness). (various references) | |
Arabic | منظر قبيح, قذى للعين, شىء قبيح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грозотия (gorgon, horror, ugliness), грозно нещо, грозен (grotesque, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, morbid, ugly, unlovely, unsightly). (various references) | |
Czech | hrùzný pohled. (various references) | |
French | intrusion visuelle, horreur. (various references) | |
German | schandfleck (blot). (various references) | |
Greek | αηδία (disgust). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מראה מכוער, כעור (abhorrent, disfigurement, nastiness, repulsive, uglification, ugliness, ugly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemet sértő, szemet bántó, szálka a szemben. (various references) | |
Italian | obbrobrio (disgrace, opprobrium, shame), cosa spiacevole. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 目障り (obstructing a view), 目ざわり . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めざわり (obstructing a view). (various references) | |
Manx | red graney, geuhooilley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyesoreay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | monstruosidade (abnormity, monster, monstrosity), coisa desagradável (bolus). (various references) | |
Romanian | urcior (jug, pitcher, sty), spin în ochi, oroare (abhorrence, aversion, execration, hideousness, horror, recoil, repugnance, terror), obiect care jeneazã vãzul. (various references) | |
Russian | уродство (deformity, disfigurement, ugliness), нечто оскорбительное для глаза, безобразие (deformation, deformity, hideousness, ugliness), бельмо на глазу (walleyed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trn u oku, ruglo (disgrace, mock, mockery), kao trn u oku. (various references) | |
Spanish | monstruosidad (monstrosity), fealdad (ugliness), desagradable a la vista, cosa antiestética. (various references) | |
Swedish | anskrämlig syn. (various references) | |
Turkish | göze batan şey (glare), göz zevkini bozan şey. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | потворність (abnormality, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, malformation, monstrosity, ugliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật chướng mắt, điều chướng mắt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. mug. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eyesore": eyesores. (additional references) | |
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"Eyesore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aylesmore, eyeore, eyescore, eyesfree, Eynesford, Eynsford. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eyesore" (pronounced ī"sô'r) |
| 3 | -s ô' r | dinosaur. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-o-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: erose, eyers, eyres, oyers, resee, yores. | |
-3 letters: eery, eros, eyer, eyes, eyre, ores, oyer, oyes, rees, roes, rose, rosy, ryes, seer, sere, sore, yore. | |
-4 letters: ere, ers, eye, oes, ore, ors, ose, ree, res, roe, rye, see, ser, soy, yes. | |
-5 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, oy, re, so, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-o-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: eyesores. | |
+3 letters: eyeopeners, eyepoppers, stereotype. | |
+4 letters: eyedroppers, heterodynes, heterolyses, honeyeaters, stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypes. | |
+5 letters: cryopreserve, electrolyses, electrolytes, electrolyzes, electrotypes, eleemosynary, embryogenies, heterocycles, moneylenders, stereotypers, stereotypies, teenyboppers. | |
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