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EYESORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eyesore mean?
• EYESORE (noun)
The noun EYESORE has 1 sense:
1. something very ugly and offensive
Familiarity information: EYESORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something very ugly and offensive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("eyesore" is a kind of...):
ugliness (qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses)
Context examples
This document had long been the lawyer’s eyesore.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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