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beautiful

[byoo-tuh-fuhl] / ˈbyu tə fəl /




Usage

What are other ways to say beautiful? A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.

Example Sentences

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Yet he gathered some beautiful footage and was eventually satisfied with the edit of a short film.

From BBC

“I think it resonates so much because the show is just beautiful, everything about it,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

Rather than sit in a grand office with big windows overlooking the beautiful Bay of Ajaccio, the club president worked in a windowless, concrete bunker deep inside the building.

From BBC

He has a beautiful home, a dog, and enough antiques and collectibles stored up over a lifetime that he doesn’t need more “stuff” to clutter his home.

From MarketWatch

The exception to this dreary trend—the really wonderful bright spot that cheers both the reader’s and the author’s heart—are classical schools, where academic study is based on what Mr. Traub calls “beautiful content.”

From The Wall Street Journal