Nasty vs. Ugly

Nastyadjective

Dirty, filthy.

Uglyadjective

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

Nastyadjective

Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).

Uglyadjective

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Nastyadjective

Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.

Uglyadjective

Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

‘He played an ugly trick on us.’;

Nastyadjective

Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.

Uglyadjective

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

‘an ugly temper; to feel ugly’;

Nastyadjective

Spiteful, unkind.

Uglyadjective

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

‘an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound’; ‘With all this competition, expect things to get ugly.’;

Nastyadjective

Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.

Uglyadjective

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

‘The ugly view of his deformed crimes.’; ‘Like the toad, ugly and venomous.’; ‘O, I have passed a miserable night,So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.’;

Nastyadjective

Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).

Uglyadjective

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

Nastyadjective

Formidable, terrific; wicked.

Uglyadjective

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

Nastynoun

(informal) Something nasty.

‘Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties.’; ‘This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.’;

Uglynoun

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

Nastynoun

Sexual intercourse.

Uglyverb

To make ugly.

Nastyadjective

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

Uglyadjective

displeasing to the senses and morally revolting;

‘an ugly face’; ‘ugly furniture’; ‘war is ugly’;

Nastyadjective

Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.

Uglyadjective

deficient in beauty;

‘ugly gray slums’;

Nastyadjective

Characterized by obscenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

Uglyadjective

inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;

‘a surly waiter’; ‘an ugly frame of mind’;

Nastyadjective

Vicious; offensively ill-tempered; insultingly mean; spiteful; as, a nasty disposition.

Uglyadjective

morally reprehensible;

‘would do something as despicable as murder’; ‘ugly crimes’; ‘the vile development of slavery appalled them’;

Nastyadjective

Difficult to deal with; troublesome; as, he fell of his bike and got a nasty bruise on his knee.

Uglyadjective

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

‘a baleful look’; ‘forbidding thunderclouds’; ‘his tone became menacing’; ‘ominous rumblings of discontent’; ‘sinister storm clouds’; ‘a sinister smile’; ‘his threatening behavior’; ‘ugly black clouds’; ‘the situation became ugly’;

Nastyadjective

offensive or even (of persons) malicious;

‘in a nasty mood’; ‘a nasty accident’; ‘a nasty shock’; ‘a nasty smell’; ‘a nasty trick to pull’; ‘Will he say nasty things at my funeral?’;

Uglyadjective

provoking horror;

‘an atrocious automobile accident’; ‘a frightful crime of decapitation’; ‘an alarming, even horrifying, picture’; ‘war is beyond all words horrible’; ‘an ugly wound’;

Nastyadjective

exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent;

‘a nasty problem’; ‘a good man to have on your side in a tight situation’;

Nastyadjective

thoroughly unpleasant;

‘filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having’;

Nastyadjective

characterized by obscenity;

‘had a filthy mouth’; ‘foul language’; ‘smutty jokes’;

Nastyadjective

disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;

‘as filthy as a pigsty’; ‘a foul pond’; ‘a nasty pigsty of a room’;

Nastyadjective

very bad or unpleasant

‘plastic bags burn with a nasty, acrid smell’; ‘dad's had a nasty accident’;

Nastyadjective

(of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet

‘it's a nasty old night’;

Nastyadjective

repugnant to the mind

‘her stories are very nasty, full of murder and violence’;

Nastyadjective

behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way

‘Harry was a nasty, foul-mouthed old devil’;

Nastyadjective

annoying or unwelcome

‘life has a nasty habit of repeating itself’;

Nastyadjective

damaging or harmful

‘a nasty, vicious-looking hatchet’;

Nastynoun

an unpleasant or harmful person or thing

‘a water conditioner to neutralize chlorine and other nasties’;

Nastynoun

a horror video or film.