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beau·ti·ful

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–adjective

1.	having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.

2.	excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef.

3.	wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.

–noun

4.	the concept of beauty (usually prec. by the).

5.	(used with a plural verb) beautiful things or people collectively (usually prec. by the): the good and the beautiful.

6.	the ideal of beauty (usually prec. by the): to strive to attain the beautiful.

–interjection

7.	wonderful; fantastic: You got two front-row seats? Beautiful!

8.	extraordinary; incredible: used ironically: Your car broke down in the middle of the freeway? Beautiful!

[Origin: 1520–30; beauty + -ful

]

—Related forms

beau·ti·ful·ly, adverb

beau·ti·ful·ness, noun

—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, esp. in that which is small or of minor importance: a pretty child.

—Antonyms 1. ugly.

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beau·ti·ful Audio Help (byōō'tə-fəl) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight.
Excellent; wonderful.

beau'ti·ful·ly adv., beau'ti·ful·ness n.

Synonyms: All these adjectives apply to what excites aesthetic admiration. Beautiful is most comprehensive: a beautiful child; a beautiful painting; a beautiful mathematical proof.
Lovely applies to what inspires emotion rather than intellectual appreciation: "They were lovely, your eyes" (George Seferis).
What is pretty is beautiful in a delicate or graceful way: a pretty face; a pretty song; a pretty room.
Handsome stresses poise and dignity of form and proportion: a very large, handsome paneled library. "She is very pretty, but not so extraordinarily handsome" (William Makepeace Thackeray).
Comely suggests wholesome physical attractiveness: "Mrs. Hurd is a large woman with a big, comely, simple face" (Ernest Hemingway).
Fair emphasizes freshness or purity: "In the highlands, in the country places,/Where the old plain men have rosy faces,/And the young fair maidens/Quiet eyes" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

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beautiful
adjective
1.	delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party" [ant: ugly]
2.	(of weather) highly enjoyable; "what a beautiful day"

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ˈbeautiful adjective

Example: a beautiful woman; Those roses are beautiful.

Arabic:	جَميل
Chinese (Traditional):	美的
Czech:	(pře)krásný
Danish:	smuk
Dutch:	mooi
Estonian:	kaunis
Finnish:	kaunis
French:	beau
German:	schön
Greek:	ωραίος
Hungarian:	gyönyörű
Icelandic:	fallegur
Indonesian:	cantik
Italian:	bello
Japanese:	美しい

Korean:	아름다운
Latvian:	skaists; daiļš; lielisks
Lithuanian:	gražus
Norwegian:	skjønn, pen, nydelig, vakker
Polish:	piękny
Portuguese (Brazil):	bonito
Portuguese (Portugal):	lindo
Romanian:	frumos
Russian:	красивый
Slovak:	krásny
Slovenian:	krasen
Spanish:	bonita, hermosa, guapa
Swedish:	vacker
Turkish:	güzel

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