BEAUTIFUL
Dictionary entry overview: What does beautiful mean?
• BEAUTIFUL (adjective)
The adjective BEAUTIFUL has 3 senses:
1. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
2. aesthetically pleasing
3. (of weather) highly enjoyable
Familiarity information: BEAUTIFUL used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• BEAUTIFUL (adjective)
Meaning:
Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
Context examples:
a beautiful child / beautiful country / a beautiful painting / a beautiful theory / a beautiful party
Similar:
stunning (strikingly beautiful or attractive)
scenic (used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery)
ravishing (stunningly beautiful)
pulchritudinous (used of persons only; having great physical beauty)
pretty-pretty (ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty)
pretty (pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing)
picturesque (suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture)
lovely (appealing to the emotions as well as the eye)
gorgeous (dazzlingly beautiful)
glorious; resplendent; splendid; splendiferous (having great beauty and splendor)
beauteous ((poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight)
bonnie; bonny; comely; fair; sightly (very pleasing to the eye)
dishy ((informal British) good-looking)
exquisite (of extreme beauty)
better-looking; fine-looking; good-looking; handsome; well-favored; well-favoured (pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion)
Also:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)
pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)
Attribute:
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Antonym:
ugly (displeasing to the senses)
Meaning:
Aesthetically pleasing
Similar:
aesthetic; aesthetical; esthetic; esthetical (concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste)
Meaning:
(of weather) highly enjoyable
Context example:
what a beautiful day
Similar:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
