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bad-looking en · ADJ

Etymology

From bad + looking.

Meanings

  1. Not pleasing to the eye; unattractive.
    • This was the worst-looking house on the street. Why had he taken it on? He'd told her that he was planning to do most of the renovation work himself. 2008, Fiona Gibson, Something Good, →ISBN, page 33:
    • Aside from being desirable on macroeconomic grounds, a policy of the lowest possible unemployment would create the additional benefit of reducing the earnings disadvantage of bad-looking workers; and it might even spill over to their treatment in other areas. 2011, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, →ISBN, page 178:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
worse-looking Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most bad-looking Degree=Sup lexicographic
worst-looking Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bad-looking Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

nice-looking · good-looking

Translations (1)

es mal parecido (Translations)