2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Unhandsome \Un*hand"some\, a. 1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. [1913 Webster] Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. --Shak. [1913 Webster] I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] 2. Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. "Unhandsome pleasures." --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster] 3. Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome. --Holland. [1913 Webster] A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster] -- {Un*hand"some*ly}, adv. -- {Un*hand"some*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 38 Moby Thesaurus words for "unhandsome": beautiless, blemished, blotted, cacophonic, cacophonous, defaced, discourteous, disfigured, disrespectful, dysphemistic, dysphemized, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, marred, plain, rude, short on looks, spoiled, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unalluring, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, uncivil, uncomely, ungracious, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly
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