beautiful
AdjectiveUS[byoo-tuh-fuhl]/ˈbjutəfəl/3 syllables
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Adjective (2)
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration“a beautiful child”“beautiful country”“a beautiful painting”“a beautiful theory”“a beautiful party”Opposite uglySimilar pretty, fine-looking, lovely, glorious, scenic, picturesque, bonny, gorgeous +7 moreRelates to beautySee also attractive, graceful, pleasing
- (of weather) highly enjoyable“what a beautiful day”Opposite unpleasantSimilar pleasant
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Translations
Adjective attractive, pleasing to look at
- Spanish
- bello
- French
- beau
- German
- schön
- Italian
- bello
- Portuguese
- belo
- Turkish
- güzel
- Russian
- краси́вый krasívyj
- Arabic
- جَمِيل jamīl
- Chinese
- 美丽 měilì
- Japanese
- 美しい utsukushii
36 more languages
- Dutch
- mooi
- Polish
- piękny
- Swedish
- vacker
- Greek
- όμορφος ómorfos
- Korean
- 아름답다 areumdapda
- Indonesian
- indah
- Vietnamese
- đẹp
- Hungarian
- szép
- Portuguese (PT)
- belo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 美麗 měilì
- Albanian
- i bukur
- Breton
- brav
- Catalan
- bell
- Corsican
- bellu
- Czech
- krásný
- Danish
- smuk
- Esperanto
- bela
- Estonian
- kaunis
- Finnish
- kaunis
- Georgian
- ლამაზი lamazi
- Hebrew
- יָפֶה yafé
- Icelandic
- fallegur
- Kurdish
- xweşik
- Latvian
- skaists
- Lithuanian
- gražus
- Malagasy
- tsara tarehy
- Norwegian
- vakker
- Romanian
- frumos
- Scottish Gaelic
- brèagha
- Serbo-Croatian
- lijep
- Slovak
- krásny
- Slovenian
- lep
- Swahili
- zuri
- Walloon
- bea
- Welsh
- hardd
- Yiddish
- שיין sheyn
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Beau′ti·ful (bū′tĭ-fụl), adjective
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.— Lord Kames.
Synonyms: Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; pretty; delightful. See Fine.
— Beau′wb-a1′>′ti·ful·ly, adverb — Beau′wb-a1′>′ti·ful·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54