beau·ti·ful

(byo͞o′tə-fəl)

adj.

1. Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.

2. Excellent; wonderful: hit a beautiful shot from the tee.

interj.

Used to express approval or delight.

beau′ti·ful·ly adv.

beau′ti·ful·ness n.

Synonyms: beautiful, lovely, pretty, handsome, comely, fair¹
All these adjectives apply to what excites aesthetic admiration. Beautiful is most comprehensive and applies to mental appreciation as well as sensual delight: a beautiful child; a beautiful painting; a beautiful mathematical proof. Lovely also has wide application but stresses sensual enjoyment or emotional response over critical faculties: a lovely fragrance; the lovely feel of silk; greeted us with a lovely smile. What is pretty is beautiful in a delicate or graceful way: a pretty face; a pretty song; a pretty dress. Handsome stresses poise and dignity of form and proportion: a handsome, oak-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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beautifully

(ˈbjuːtɪflɪ)

adv

1. in a beautiful manner

2. informal (intensifier): you did beautifully well in the race.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adv.

beautifully - in a beautiful manner; "her face was beautifully made up"

attractively

Translations

بِشَكْلٍ جَمِيلبِصورةٍ جَميلَةٍ

krásněvýborně

smukt

schön

όμορφα

maravillosamente perfectamente bellamente lindo

kauniisti

superbement

lijepo

gyönyörûen

fallega

meravigliosamente mirabilmente

美しく

아름답게

krasnolepo

vackert

อย่างสวยงาม

güzel bir şekildegüzelce hoşça

một cách tốt đẹp

出色地悦目地漂亮地美丽地美好地

beautifully

[ˈbjuːtɪflɪ] ADV (= wonderfully) → maravillosamente; (= precisely) → perfectamente
she plays beautifully → toca a la perfección
that will do beautifully → así sirve perfectamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

beautifully

[ˈbjuːtɪfli] adv

[play, write] → admirablement

[sing] → merveilleusement bien

[clear, quiet] → merveilleusement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

beautifully

adv → schön; warm, prepared, shine, simple → herrlich, wunderbar; (= well) sew, cook, sing, swim → hervorragend, sehr gut, prima (inf); that will do beautifully → das ist ganz ausgezeichnet

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

beautifully

[ˈbjuːtɪflɪ] adv → splendidamente, magnificamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

beauty

(ˈbjuːti) – plural ˈbeauties – noun

1. a quality very pleasing to the eye, ear etc. Her beauty is undeniable.

2. a woman or girl having such a quality. She was a great beauty in her youth.

3. something or someone remarkable. His new car is a beauty!

ˈbeautiful adjective

a beautiful woman; Those roses are beautiful.

ˈbeautifully adverb

ˈbeautify (-fai) verb

to make beautiful. She beautified the room with flowers.

beauty queen

a girl or woman who is voted the most beautiful in a contest.

ˈbeauty salon noun

(also American beauty parlor, ~beauty shop) a place where customers have cosmetic treatment.

beauty spot

1. a place of great natural beauty. a famous beauty spot.

2. a mark (often artificial) on the face, intended to emphasize beauty.

beautifully

→ بِشَكْلٍ جَمِيل krásně smukt schön όμορφα maravillosamente kauniisti superbement lijepo meravigliosamente 美しく 아름답게 mooi skjønt pięknie maravilhosamente красиво vackert อย่างสวยงาม hoşça một cách tốt đẹp 美好地

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Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them in order to be beautifully dressed.

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You're like a troop of cavalry!" he beautifully laughed.

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On the platform proper squatted an enormous warrior heavily loaded with metal ornaments, gay-colored feathers and beautifully wrought leather trappings ingeniously set with precious stones.

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So the Tin Woodman knocked a mahogany center-table to pieces with his axe and fitted one of the legs, which was beautifully carved, on to the body of Jack Pumpkinhead, who was very proud of the acquisition.

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Next, there was an account of the ancient home of the Alardyces, or rather, of spring in Suffolk, which was very beautifully written, although not essential to the story.

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Most of the latter are beautifully symmetrical; they owe their origin to eruptions of volcanic mud without any lava: it is a remarkable circumstance that every one of the twenty-eight tuff-craters which were examined, had their southern sides either much lower than the other sides, or quite broken down and removed.

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"Do you not think they are something in Miss Morton's style of painting, Ma'am?--She DOES paint most delightfully!--How beautifully her last landscape is done!"

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There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.

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I am sure he did it beautifully! But how came a governor to know how to mend a chair?"

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The beautifully arched and glossy neck was now straight, and lank, and fallen in; the clean straight legs and delicate fetlocks were swelled; the joints were grown out of shape with hard work; the face, that was once so full of spirit and life, was now full of suffering, and I could tell by the heaving of her sides, and her frequent cough, how bad her breath was.

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Now, books are simply professional liars about life, and the books that are best worth reading are those which lie the most beautifully. Yet, in fairness, we must add that they are liars, not with intent to mislead, but merely with the tenderest purpose to console.

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Once in summer-time the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said:

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