From Middle English bewteful, beautefull ("attractive to the eye, beautiful"), equivalent to .

• (British) enPR: byo͞oʹtĭ-fəl, IPA: /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/, /ˈbjuːtɪ.fʊl/
• (America) IPA: /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/, [bju.ɾə.fəl]

beautiful

1. Attractive and possessing beauty.

   Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.

   There's a beautiful lake by the town.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:

     It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.

2. Good, admirable.

   He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.

   You've done a beautiful thing today.

3. (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.

   It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.

4. Well executed.

   The skater performed a beautiful axel.

• (possessing charm and attractive) beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang)
• (of the weather) clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny
• (well executed) excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful
• (ironic: how unfortunate) great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)
• See also Thesaurus:beautiful

• (antonym(s) of “possessing charm and attractive”): grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful
• (antonym(s) of “of the weather”): bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet
• (antonym(s) of “well executed”): average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak

• beauty
  • See also Thesaurus:beautiful woman

• French: beau, belle
• German: schön
• Italian: bello, bella, affascinante, incantevole, meraviglioso
• Portuguese: belo, bela, bonito, bonita, lindo, linda
• Russian: краси́вый
• Spanish: hermoso, bello, lindo, guapo, bonito, fermoso

• French: beau
• German: heiter, schön
• Italian: (before "tempo") bel, (after "tempo") bello
• Portuguese: limpo
• Russian: я́сный
• Spanish: bueno, despejado, alegre

• Italian: magnifico, stupendo, splendido, fantastico

• German: toll
• Spanish: bravo

• German: toll, schön

beautiful (plural beautifuls)

1. Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.

   The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.

   Hey, beautiful!