excrescence
noun [C] /ekˈskres.əns/Definition
› formal an unusual growth on an animal or one of its organs or on a plantPlant pathologySwellings and lumps › literary something considered to be very ugly: The new office development is an excrescence on the face of the city.Not attractive to look atSerious and unpleasant
(Definition of excrescence noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a blot on the landscape idiom
- be no oil painting idiom
- be not much to look at idiom
- blowsy adjective
- charmless adjective
- florid adjective (DECORATED)
- gaunt adjective
- ghoulish adjective
- horsey adjective
- icky adjective
- inelegant adjective
- look a fright idiom
- minger noun
- monstrosity noun
- putrid adjective (UNPLEASANT)
- ugly adjective (NOT ATTRACTIVE)
- ugly duckling noun
- unappealing adjective
- unattractive adjective
- unbecoming adjective
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Not attractive to look at
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