GRE Word List
UNSIGHTLY
not pleasing to the sight : not comely
The meaning of the word unsightly is not pleasing to the sight : not comely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |