Definition of BEAUTIFUL

beautiful

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.

Examples

  • Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
  • Beethoven's most beautiful sonata
  • He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
  • Hey, beautiful!
  • It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
  • the house beautiful
  • The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
  • The skater performed a beautiful axel.
  • There's a beautiful lake by the town.
  • These carnations smell beautiful but those daffodils smell funny.
  • You've done a beautiful thing today.

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).

Scrabble Score: 14

beautiful: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
beautiful: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
beautiful: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

beautiful: valid Words With Friends Word