unbeauty

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ beauty.

Noun

unbeauty (uncountable)

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