having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
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excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Synonyms 1. comely, seemly, attractive, fair, beauteous. Beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty refer to a pleasing appearance. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman.Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile.Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, especially in that which is small or of minor importance: a pretty child.
1520s, from beauty + -ful. Beautiful people "the fashionable set" first attested 1964 in (where else?) "Vogue." House Beautiful is from "Pilgrim's Progress," where it is a proper name of a place
mod. very satisfying; excellent. : Man, this place is beautiful! You got your own sink and toilet right in the room and good strong bars to keep the riffraff out.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Viewers who step into these boxes have the sense of being physically at the centre of a beautiful universe.
The soft air enveloping the archipelago blends into a beautiful palm-fringed haze.
It was the first computer with beautiful typography.
On the one hand, look at all those hungry, beautiful tigers.
Glowing leaves of sun-soaked lettuce are a beautiful contrast to the brooding forest colors in the glen.
That is a beautiful tree.
He'd fulminate about what kind of idiots would carry pop bottles down there and leave them in such a beautiful place.
Without them, many beautiful theories would be merely that-beautiful.
The fennel's subtle sweetness and beautiful form are quite sophisticated, but the cake's buttermilk crumb is pure homey delight.
Beautiful, indeed, considering these centuries-old ruins still seem majestic to this day.