Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2012
The most widespread use of the word ugly is to designate that or that which is not beautiful, that presents an unpleasant external appearance, absent of beauty, unsightly, disgusting and repellent, as appropriate.
That or that which presents an unpleasant and non-aesthetic appearance
For example, when the word is applied to a person it will imply that it does not have an attractive physiognomy, while when something is said ugly, such as a book, he will assume that he himself is not attractive at all in his reading. “The book you lent me is very ugly, so much so that I didn't finish reading it. Laura got very ugly over the years, she is fatter and her faulty nose is more evident.”
Anger
On the other hand, when something arouses unpleasantness or anger The word ugly is also used to describe it. “It's ugly that you miss your appointment and don't even call to cancel or apologize.”
Play the ugly: despise
And in the language current we find a very popular phrase that contains the term ugly:
make an ugly, which we normally use to account for a open contempt for someone or the rudeness that someone had towards us, for example, "you made her really ugly by not calling her for her birthday.”It should be noted that the term ugly is mostly used to refer to that which is absolutely opposite to the parameter of beauty, of cuteness, of beautifully aesthetic proposed by social convention in a community.
Then anything that contradicts this ideal will be considered ugly.
Although it is a concrete reality that in many cases there is not a total consensus regarding beauty and ugliness, that is, it is a determination in which subjectivity has an important weight, resulting, for example, ugly in the consideration of some what for others on the contrary is beautiful and vice versa; Normally, human beings rely on the absence of a appearance harmonica to talk about ugliness.
Now, beyond this, there is a social convention or generalities that are linked to what is beautiful and what is not.
Meanwhile, the concept that directly opposes that of ugly is that of beauty, what does the presence of both harmony and perfection in something or someone.
When addressing this issue, we cannot ignore the issues that are woven around this issue of the ugly and the beautiful.
The weight of being ugly in a society that does not accept it
In the society in which we live, and also in past times, ugliness and beauty have been issues that have always been debated and that have known to have an important weight.
By relating it to something unpleasant is that the ugly are often discriminated against in society and are even taken as a joke, generating serious problems for them. self-esteem, annoyance, and even resentment.
It is a reality that in today's society the doors of opportunity are wide open for the beautiful and not for the ugly, but on the contrary, for the latter many times.
So in order to overcome this situation and be able to be included in society, the people indicated as ugly they undergo cosmetic surgeries to improve their physical aspects, especially in their faces.
The body is also essential in the eyes of others and when it is not proportionate, or is not subject to established parameters, traumas arise that come from jokes or from the elusive gaze of society in general, which almost always values bodies slender.
It is very good that people take care of ourselves for a matter of Health and also because of the vanity that we all have of looking good, however, when the focus on aesthetics exceeds normal, and people present a obsession for looking pretty, skinny, harmonious and resorting to diets and surgeries excessively, of course, this will not be good or advisable for their physical and mental health, neither extreme is positive.
Medicine helps us to improve what we do not like about our physique but we always have to do it under supervision medical and within limits.
Themes in Ugly