unbeauty

unbeauty

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ beauty.

Noun

unbeauty (uncountable)

1. Lack of beauty; unattractiveness.
   • 1982, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing 2022, p. 44:

     And she grimaces and distorts her features while she thinks and talks, trying perhaps to distract attention from the un-beauty of her face by keeping it in motion.

Verb

unbeauty (third-person singular simple present unbeauties, present participle unbeautying, simple past and past participle unbeautied)

1. (obsolete) To unbeautify.