Usually means: Visually unpleasant, offensive to view.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word eyesore:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyesore: Merriam-Webster
  2. eyesore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eyesore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eyesore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eyesore: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eyesore, eyesore: Wordnik
  7. eyesore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eyesore: Wiktionary
  9. eyesore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eyesore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eyesore: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eyesore, eyesore: Dictionary.com
  13. eyesore: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eyesore: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Eyesore (disambiguation), Eyesore (song), Eyesore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eyesore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eyesore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eyesore: Rhymezone
  19. Eyesore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eyesore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. eyesore: FreeDictionary.org
  22. eyesore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. eyesore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. eyesore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eyesore: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  An eye lesion.
▸ noun:  A displeasing sight; something prominently ugly or unsightly.

Similar:
eyesocket, eye-socket, eye-apple, eye-pit, apple of the eye, cranial orbit, eye socket, orbital cavity, aegilops, optocoele, more...

Opposite:
gem, jewel, treasure

Types:
billboard, abandoned building, overgrown yard, graffiti, trash heap, strip mall, more...

Phrases:
opposite of eyesore, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, real, old, terrible, perpetual, public, constant, intolerable, ugly, major

Colors:
    neon green,     bright pink,     electric blue,     lime green,     hot pink, more...


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Similar:
eyesocket, eye-socket, eye-apple, eye-pit, apple of the eye, cranial orbit, eye socket, orbital cavity, aegilops, optocoele, more...

Opposite:
gem, jewel, treasure

Types:
billboard, abandoned building, overgrown yard, graffiti, trash heap, strip mall, more...

Phrases:
opposite of eyesore, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, real, old, terrible, perpetual, public, constant, intolerable, ugly, major

Colors:
    neon green,     bright pink,     electric blue,     lime green,     hot pink, more...



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