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).
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
ugly, average, bad, cloudy, disgusting, dull, grotesque, hideous, homely, mediocre, miserable, misshapen, overcast, plain, poor, rainy, repulsive, shoddy, substandard, terrible, unbeautiful, weak, wet
Scrabble Score: 14
beautiful: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbeautiful: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
beautiful: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary