बदसूरत (badsoorat)

adjective A single-sense adjective meaning 'ugly' or 'unattractive' in appearance, used for people, animals, and sometimes situations.
Sense 1 : ugly, unattractive in appearance
adjective
Synonyms: कुरूप (kuroop, formal), भद्दा (bhaddaa, can also mean 'tacky' or 'clumsy-looking')
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: बद (bad) is a Persian-origin prefix meaning 'bad,' and you'll meet it again in words like बदनाम (badnaam, 'notorious') and बदमाश (badmaash, 'scoundrel') -- so recognizing बद (bad) helps you guess at a whole family of negative words. सूरत (soorat) alone means 'face' or 'appearance,' so बदसूरत (badsoorat) literally paints the picture 'bad-faced.'
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes use बदसूरत (badsoorat) for a person's bad behavior or character, but it strictly describes physical/visual ugliness -- for an unpleasant personality, बुरा (buraa) or गंदा (gandaa) fit better. 2) It can sound quite blunt and hurtful when applied to a person directly, so Hindi speakers often soften it in polite company, e.g. describing a thing (a building, a scene) rather than someone's face.
Sample Sentences:
वह मकान बहुत बदसूरत है। That house is very ugly.
(vah makaan bahut badsoorat hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
मुझे यह डिज़ाइन बदसूरत लगता है। This design seems ugly to me.
(mujhe yah dizaain badsoorat lagtaa hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
पुराना पुल दिन-ब-दिन बदसूरत होता जा रहा है। The old bridge is getting uglier day by day.
(puraanaa pul din-b-din badsoorat hotaa jaa rahaa hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Continuous -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
उसने वह बदसूरत सा दाग साफ़ कर दिया। He cleaned up that ugly-looking stain.
(usne vah badsoorat saa daag saaf kar diyaa।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
अगर वह दीवार इतनी बदसूरत न होती, तो हम इसे रंगते नहीं। If that wall weren't so ugly, we wouldn't be painting it.
(agar vah diivaar itnii badsoorat n hotii, to ham ise rangte nahiin।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Counterfactual -- Aspect: Habitual -- Voice: Active
यह इमारत इतनी बदसूरत मत बनाओ कि लोग देखना ही न चाहें। Don't make this building so ugly that people don't even want to look at it.
(yah imaarat itnii badsoorat mat banaao ki log dekhnaa hii n chaahen।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Imperative -- Voice: Active
शायद यह मुखौटा उन्हें बदसूरत लगे। Perhaps this mask seems ugly to them.
(shaayad yah mukhautaa unhen badsoorat lage।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Subjunctive -- Voice: Active
उस मूर्ति को इतना बदसूरत बनाया गया कि लोग नाराज़ हो गए। That statue was made so ugly that people got angry.
(us moorti ko itnaa badsoorat banaayaa gayaa ki log naaraaz ho gae।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Passive
सच कहूँ तो यह पेंटिंग बदसूरत है, पर दिलचस्प भी है। Honestly, this painting is ugly, but it's also interesting.
(sach kahoon to yah penting badsoorat hai, par dilchasp bhii hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
कवि ने संसार के बदसूरत चेहरे को अपनी कविता में उतार दिया। The poet captured the world's ugly face in his poem.
(kavi ne sansaar ke badsoorat chehre ko apnii kavitaa men utaar diyaa।)
Register: Literary -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
Morphology
Adjective (invariant)
invariant: बदसूरत (badsoorat)