Usually means: Unpleasant to look at; ugly.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word unsightly:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsightly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unsightly: Merriam-Webster
  3. unsightly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unsightly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unsightly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unsightly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unsightly, unsightly: Wordnik
  8. unsightly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unsightly: Wiktionary
  10. unsightly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unsightly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unsightly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unsightly: Dictionary.com
  14. unsightly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unsightly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. unsightly: Rhymezone
  17. unsightly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. unsightly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. unsightly: FreeDictionary.org
  20. unsightly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. unsightly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. unsightly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsightly: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Displeasing to the eye.

Similar:
ugly, painful on the eyes, impleasing, distasteful, hard on the eyes, noisy, obscene, ill-favoured, ingrateful, filthy, more...

Opposite:
pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome

Colors:
    brown,     mustard yellow,     olive green,     neon green,     chartreuse, more...


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Similar:
ugly, painful on the eyes, impleasing, distasteful, hard on the eyes, noisy, obscene, ill-favoured, ingrateful, filthy, more...

Opposite:
pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome

Colors:
    brown,     mustard yellow,     olive green,     neon green,     chartreuse, more...



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