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beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] adj
1. possessing beauty; aesthetically pleasing 2. highly enjoyable; very pleasant the party was beautiful beautifulness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
beautiful adjective 1. attractive, pretty, lovely, stunning (informal), charming, tempting, pleasant, handsome, fetching, good-looking, gorgeous, fine, pleasing, fair, magnetic, delightful, cute, exquisite, enticing, seductive, graceful, captivating, appealing, radiant, alluring, drop-dead (slang), ravishing, bonny, winsome, comely, prepossessing, Butiful (S.M.S.) a beautiful red-haired woman kneeling at her mother's feet attractive ugly, unpleasant, hideous, unattractive, unsightly, repulsive 2. bright, clear, fine, summery, unclouded, sunshiny, without a cloud in the sky It was a beautiful morning 3. wonderful, great, excellent, superb, marvellous, sensational (informal), mega (slang), cracking (Brit. informal), awesome (slang), topping (Brit. slang), world-class, first-rate, brill (informal), mean (slang) That's a beautiful shot! wonderful bad, terrible, awful Quotations "Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance" [John Ruskin Stones of Venice] "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful" [John Constable] "Things are beautiful if you love them" [Jean Anouilh Mademoiselle Colombe] Translations beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] ADJ → hermoso, bello, lindo(esp LAm) what a beautiful house! → ¡qué casa más preciosa! the beautiful people → la gente guapa beautiful adj → schön; weather, morning also, idea, meal → herrlich, wunderbar; (= good) swimmer, swimming, organization, piece of work → hervorragend, wunderbar; that’s a beautiful specimen → das ist ein Prachtexemplar; the beautiful people → die Schickeria; beautiful! → prima! (inf), → toll! (inf) beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] adj → bello/a, splendido/a beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] adj → bello/a, splendido/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then I should have chosen a career for myself, I should have been a sluggard and a glutton, not a simple one, but, for instance, one with sympathies for everything sublime and beautiful. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful Princess Helene, Prince Vasili's daughter, and the little Princess Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. Again, a beautiful object, whether it be a living organism or any whole composed of parts, must not only have an orderly arrangement of parts, but must also be of a certain magnitude; for beauty depends on magnitude and order. |
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