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BEAUTIFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
Example:
a beautiful party
Classified under:
Similar:
stunning (strikingly beautiful or attractive)
beauteous ((poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight)
bonnie; bonny; comely; fair; sightly (very pleasing to the eye)
dishy ((informal British) sexually attractive)
exquisite (of extreme beauty)
better-looking; fine-looking; good-looking; handsome; well-favored; well-favoured (pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion)
glorious; resplendent; splendid; splendiferous (having great beauty and splendor)
gorgeous (dazzlingly beautiful)
lovely (appealing to the emotions as well as the eye)
picturesque (suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture)
pretty (pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing)
pretty-pretty (ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty)
pulchritudinous (used of persons only; having great physical beauty)
ravishing (stunningly beautiful)
scenic (used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery)
Also:
graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)
Attribute:
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Antonym:
ugly (displeasing to the senses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of weather) highly enjoyable
Example:
what a beautiful day
Classified under:
Similar:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
Context examples:
He staggered limply about, the blood flowing from nose and mouth and ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Lucky you, on Valentine’s Day, the transiting moon will tour Scorpio, so you will have the likelihood of an especially beautiful day.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But, in three hours travelling, the scene was wholly altered; we came into a most beautiful country; farmers’ houses, at small distances, neatly built; the fields enclosed, containing vineyards, corn-grounds, and meadows.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
To others he appears as a beautiful fairy, or a brownie, or in any other form that pleases him.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I was sick once, typhoid, in the hospital, an' it was beautiful.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“We have had a charming little breath of your beautiful Dartmoor air.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I never saw anything half so beautiful!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Now I see it! My Gennaro! My splendid, beautiful Gennaro, who has guarded me safe from all harm, he did it, with his own strong hand he killed the monster!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He stood in the shadow of an oak staring at her with parted lips, for this woman seemed to him to be the most beautiful and graceful creature that mind could conceive of.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Very beautiful, indeed,” replied Emma; and she spoke so kindly, that he gratefully burst out, How delighted I am to see you again! and to see you in such excellent looks!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
