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beau·ti·ful  (byt-fl)
adj.
1. Having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight.
2. Excellent; wonderful.

beauti·ful·ly adv.
beauti·ful·ness n.
Synonyms: beautiful, lovely, pretty, handsome, comely, fair1
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).

beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl]
adj
1. possessing beauty; aesthetically pleasing
2. highly enjoyable; very pleasant the party was beautiful
beautifulness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.beautiful - delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
attractive - pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations"
graceful - characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
pleasing - giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"
ugly - displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
2.beautiful - (of weather) highly enjoyable; "what a beautiful day"
pleasant - affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

beautiful
adjective
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] ADJhermoso, bello, lindo(esp LAm)
what a beautiful house!¡qué casa más preciosa!
the beautiful peoplela gente guapa

beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] adj
[woman, baby, place, day] → très beau*(belle)
[weather] → superbe, magnifique
[performance] → superbe
beautiful game n (= football) the beautiful game → le football

beautiful
adjschön; weather, morning also, idea, mealherrlich, wunderbar; (= good) swimmer, swimming, organization, piece of workhervorragend, wunderbar; that’s a beautiful specimendas ist ein Prachtexemplar; the beautiful peopledie Schickeria; beautiful!prima! (inf), → toll! (inf)
n
the beautifuldas Schöne
(inf) hello, beautifulhallo, schönes Kind

beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] adjbello/a, splendido/a
beautiful [ˈbjuːtɪfʊl] adjbello/a, splendido/a

beautiful جَميل krásný smuk schön όμορφος precioso kaunis beau lijep meraviglioso 美しい 아름다운 mooi vakker piękny bonito красивый vacker สวยงาม güzel đẹp 美丽


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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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