beautiful
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
beautiful
- Attractive and possessing beauty.
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- It is a beautiful kitchen! — It is beautiful.
- It is a beautiful kitchen! — It is beautiful.
- Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
- There's a beautiful lake by the town.
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- (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
- It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
- 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
- (possessing charm and attractive) grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful
- (of the weather) bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet
- (well executed) average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak
- beauty
- See also Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- French: beau, belle
- German: schön
- Italian: bello, bella
- Portuguese: belo, bela, bonito, bonita, lindo, linda
- Russian: краси́вый
- Spanish: hermoso, hermosa, bello, bella lindo, linda, guapo, guapa, bonito, bonita
beautiful (plural beautifuls)
- 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!
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