beautiful
Meanings
Plural: beautifuls
Adjective
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
- "a beautiful child"
- "beautiful country"
- "a beautiful painting"
- "a beautiful theory"
- "a beautiful party"
Adjective Satellite
- (of weather) highly enjoyable
- "what a beautiful day"
Adj
- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
- That one likes very much.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
Noun
- Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
Synonyms
attractive, beauteous, beautifool, beautiful, beautimous, bona vardering, bonnie, breathtaking, captivating, clear, comely, cute, esculent, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fair, fetching, fine, fine-looking, fit, good, good enough to eat, good-looking, gorgeous, great, handsome, hot, knockout, lovely, lovesome, lustrious, marvellous, marvelous, nice, nice-looking, perfect, personable, physically attractive, pleasant, prettiful, pretty, pulchritudinous, shapely, sheen, sightly, stunning, stylish, sunny, swanlike, very nice, well-favoured, winsome, wonderful
Antonyms
average, bad, cloudy, disgusting, dull, grotesque, hideous, homely, mediocre, miserable, misshapen, overcast, plain, poor, rainy, repulsive, shoddy, substandard, terrible, ugly, unbeautiful, weak, wet
Scrabble Score: 14
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