UNSIGHTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsightly mean? 

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

1. unpleasant to look at

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSIGHTLY (adjective)

Comparative: unsightlier   
Superlative: unsightliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpleasant to look at

Context example:

unsightly billboards

Similar:

ugly (displeasing to the senses)

Derivation:

unsightliness (ugliness that is unpleasant to look at)

 Context examples 

Behind stood knots of Gascon and Brabant crossbowmen from the companies of Ortingo and of La Nuit, leaning upon their unsightly weapons and watching the practice of the Englishmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But others develop painful and unsightly cold sores that last for a week or more.

(Cold Sores, NIH)

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)