English > beautiful: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration. |
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Examples | - "a beautiful child"
- "beautiful country"
- "a beautiful painting"
- "a beautiful theory"
- "a beautiful party"
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Attribute of | beauty | The qualities that give pleasure to the senses |
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Narrower | beauteous | (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight |
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bonny, bonnie, comely, fair, sightly | Very pleasing to the eye / eye |
dishy | (informal British) sexually attractive |
exquisite | Of extreme / extreme beauty |
fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured | pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion |
glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous | Having great beauty and splendor |
gorgeous | dazzlingly beautiful |
lovely | appealing to the emotions as well as the eye / eye |
picturesque | Suggesting or suitable for a picture / picture |
pretty | pleasing by delicacy or grace |
pretty-pretty | ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty |
pulchritudinous | Used of persons only |
ravishing | stunningly beautiful |
scenic | Used of locations |
stunning | strikingly beautiful or attractive |
See also | attractive | pleasing to the eye / eye or mind especially through beauty or charm |
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graceful | Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution |
pleasing | Giving pleasure and satisfaction |
Opposite | ugly | displeasing to the senses |
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Spanish | bello, bonita, bonito, cautivador, encantador, guapo, hermosa, hermoso, lindo, precioso |
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Catalan | bell, bonic, bonica, encantador, encisador, formós, preciós |
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Adverbs | beautifully | in a beautiful manner |
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