unattractive
/ʌnəˈtraktɪv
/adjective
1Not pleasing or appealing to look at: an unattractive deep red brick the silence was broken by a strange and unattractive sound she believed she was unattractive and overweight he was an extremely unattractive man with no sex appeal...
- They sound fuzzy and unattractive; their songs simply aren't memorable.
- It was a most unattractive sound, and I had to speak to him quite sharply about it.
- The stunning singer admits she is shocked that men lust after her now she has grown up because she was overweight and unattractive as a teenager..
1.1Having no inviting or beneficial features: if the revised bid is unattractive, it may not be accepted...
- The unattractive feature of this approach is that it will sometimes involve punishing the blameless.
- But Dublin also had a number of unattractive features that had the potential to turn away investors.
- This multiplication of entities is certainly seen by many physicists to be an unattractive feature of the theory.
Synonyms
plain, ugly, plain-looking, ugly-looking, plain-featured, ill-favoured, unappealing, unsightly, unlovely, unprepossessing, displeasing;
hideous, monstrous, grotesque, deformed, disfigured;
North American homely
informal not much to look at, short on looks, as plain as a pikestaff, as ugly as sin, fugly
British informal no oil painting
Australian/New Zealand informal drack
New Zealand informal huckery
Derivatives
unattractively
/ adverb ...- The project would bring back to vibrant life 300 acres of brownfield land at the unattractively named Pithouse West site, which neighbours the borough's award-winning Rother Valley Country Park.
- But an hour and a half of loser superheroes gimping around in unattractively tight costumes is certainly transfixing even if it isn't entertainment.
- It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
unattractiveness
- Guess we're all confined to unattractiveness and those dreadful 1950s thick rimmed spectacles that according to stereotype all academically sound people wear.
- Each started her career riffing on the fact that her brand of unattractiveness made people uncomfortable.
- Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence.