UNLOVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unlovely mean? 

• UNLOVELY (adjective)
  The adjective UNLOVELY has 1 sense:

1. without beauty or charm

  Familiarity information: UNLOVELY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNLOVELY (adjective)

Comparative: unlovelier   
Superlative: unloveliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without beauty or charm

Synonyms:

unlovely; unpicturesque

Similar:

ugly (displeasing to the senses)

 Context examples 

My! for a poet, delicately attuned and all the rest of it, you can make unlovely noises. My ear-drums are pierced. You outwhistle— Orpheus.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

What animation, both of body and mind, she had derived from watching the advance of that season which cannot, in spite of its capriciousness, be unlovely, and seeing its increasing beauties from the earliest flowers in the warmest divisions of her aunt's garden, to the opening of leaves of her uncle's plantations, and the glory of his woods.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It would appear that they are a half-brute, half-human species, a race apart, wherein there is no such thing as sex; that they are hatched out by the sun like turtle eggs, or receive life in some similar and sordid fashion; and that all their days they fester in brutality and viciousness, and in the end die as unlovely as they have lived.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)