beau·te·ous

[byoo-tee-uhs, -tyuhs]
adjective Chiefly Literary.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; see beauty, -ous

beau·te·ous·ly, adverb
beau·te·ous·ness, noun
un·beau·te·ous, adjective
un·beau·te·ous·ly, adverb
un·beau·te·ous·ness, noun
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beauteous (ˈbjuːtɪəs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
a poetic word for beautiful
 
'beauteously
 
adv
 
'beauteousness
 
n

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Beauteous is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Word Origin & History

beauteous
mid-15c., adj. from beauty (q.v.). Now mostly limited to poetry and displaced elsewhere by beautiful.
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Example sentences
The torture itself is abstract and beauteous, a torture which makes its own world rather than to accept a world which is given.
Yet in this unbearably hot and dry environment several hundred beauteous plants thrive and multiply.
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