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adjective
- 1. pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically: "beautiful poetry"
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Synonyms for BEAUTIFUL: lovely, gorgeous, cute, handsome, attractive, pretty, stunning, charming; Antonyms of BEAUTIFUL: ugly, plain, hideous, unattractive, grotesque, homely, unlovely, terrible
- Some common synonyms of beautiful are comely, fair, handsome, lovely, and pretty. While all these words mean "exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasu...
- Comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to. // the comely grace of a dancer
- The words fair and beautiful are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, fair suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshnes...
- While in some cases nearly identical to beautiful, handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. // a handsome Geo...
- Lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. // a lovel...
- The words pretty and beautiful can be used in similar contexts, but pretty often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness. // a paint...
Learn the meaning, synonyms, history, and usage of the adjective beautiful, which means having qualities of beauty or exciting aesthetic pleasure. See examples of beautiful in sentences and related words and phrases.
It's a beautiful dress, but it's ludicrously expensive. The painting portrays a beautiful young woman in a blue dress. What a beautiful piece of music! Who composed it?
Find words and phrases that mean the same or the opposite of beautiful, such as attractive, gorgeous, ugly, or awful. Learn more about the definition and usage of beautiful and its synonyms and antonyms.
Beautiful definition: having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind. See examples of BEAUTIFUL used in a sentence.
BEAUTIFUL meaning: 1. very attractive: 2. very pleasant: 3. very kind: . Learn more.
Definition of beautiful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
