antibeauty

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ beauty.

Adjective

antibeauty (not comparable)

1. Opposed to beauty.
   • 1982, Jack Burnham, Beyond modern sculpture:

     However, the American sensibility was less caught up in Angst and unnaturalness; it rejected the antibeauty implication of the Europeans.

   • 2007, Kelly Fisher Lowe, The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, page 191:

     Related to this threat of a career is the idea, again reinforced by conservatives, that feminists are somehow antibeauty and/or ugly.

2. Opposed to societal norms and beauty standards.
3. A different form of beauty.
4. (physics, dated) Being or pertaining to an anti-bottom quark (formerly called anti-beauty quark).

Alternative forms

• anti-beauty

Translations

opposed to beauty

• Portuguese: antibeleza