pretty vs ugly

pretty

adj
  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

  • Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. 

  • Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. 

  • Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

  • A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. 

adv
  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. 

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

ugly

adj
  • Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. 

  • Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. 

  • Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome. 

  • Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss. 

  • Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. 

verb
  • To make ugly (sometimes with up). 

noun
  • An ugly person or thing. 

  • Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet. 

  • Ugliness. 

How often have the words pretty and ugly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )