EYESORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eyesore mean? 

• EYESORE (noun)
  The noun EYESORE has 1 sense:

1. something very ugly and offensive

  Familiarity information: EYESORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYESORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something very ugly and offensive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("eyesore" is a kind of...):

ugliness (qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses)

 Context examples 

This document had long been the lawyer’s eyesore.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)