Unlovely

Definition: Unlovely

Unlovely

Adjective

1. Without beauty or charm.

2. Used of circumstances; "an unlovely ride to work on a crowded train".

Date "unlovely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Unlovely

Synonym: unpicturesque (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ugliness	Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	The Unlovely Child (Knopf Poetry Series, No 16) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unlovely" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlovely" is used about 33 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%	33	60,273

Language		Translations for "unlovely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		antipatik (antipathetic, antipathetical, objectionable, uncongenial, unfriendly). (various references)

Bulgarian		грозен (eyesore, grotesque, hideous, ill-favored, ill-favoured, morbid, ugly, unsightly), непривлекателен (unattractive, uncomely, uninviting, unlikely, unprepossessing). (various references)

Czech		nelíbezný (unlovable). (various references)

German		unschön (inelegant, plain, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, unbecoming, uneloquent, ungainly, unhandsome, unhandsomely, unpicturesque, unpleasant, unsightly), reizlos (charmless, dull, graceless, homely, unattractive, uncomelily, uncomely, uninspiring, unmagical, unprepossessing). (various references)

Greek		άσχημοσ (black, homely, nasty, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unshightly, unsightly), άχαρισ (clumsy, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, uncomely, ungraceful). (various references)

Hungarian		kellemetlen (awkward, bad, bothersome, churlish, crabby, cumbersome, cumbrous, disagreeable, disappointing, displeasing, effing, evil, galling, grotty, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inconvenient, irksome, jarring, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, pesky, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, poisonous, to be in a hole, trying, unaffected, ungracious, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, untoward). (various references)

Pig Latin		ovelyunlay

Portuguese		sem encantos, pouco atraente (displeasing, unattractive, ungracious, uninviting, unlovable), feio (fearful, frightful, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, shapeless, ugly, uncomely, unhandsome, unseemly, unsightly), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished). (various references)

Russian		неприятный (disagreeable, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful, galling, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, plaguesome, plaguy, repellent, rotten, ugly customer, unagreeable, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, wampus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, vile), neprivlačan (plain, unappetizing, unattractive, uninviting), nemio (disagreeable, ugly, ungraceful, unpleasant), neljubak (ungraceful). (various references)

Spanish		desgarbado (awkward, gawky, slovenly, ungainly). (various references)

Swedish		oskön (ill-favored, ill-favoured), ful (bad, foul, homely, miserable, nasty, ornery, poor, ugly, unattractive, unseemly, unsightly). (various references)

Turkish		sevimsiz (angular, beastly, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, uncongenial, ungracious, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovable, unprepossessing, unsympathetic), itici (impulsive, projectile, propellent, propelling, propulsive, pusher, pushing, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unlikable, unlikeable, unprepossessing), 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, unhandsome, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukrainian		непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unpleasant, unwelcome), поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, shady, sour, third rate, weak). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô duyên (charmless, homely, ill-favoured), khó thương (unamiable, unlovable), không đáng yêu không đẹp. (various references)

Welsh		anhawddgar (unamiable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unlovely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unlively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "unlovely" (pronounced 'Un*love"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-l-l-n-o-u-v-y"
	-1 letter: novelly.
	-2 letters: lonely, lovely, volley.
	-3 letters: envoy, nelly, novel, ovule.
	-4 letters: enol, envy, leno, levo, levy, lone, love, lune, luny, noel, null, only, oven, vole, yell, yule.
	-5 letters: ell, eon, leu, lev, ley, luv, lye, ole, one, voe, yen, yon, you.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-l-n-o-u-v-y"
	+4 letters: conclusively, conventually, convulsively.
	+5 letters: unequivocally.
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