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beautiful

[byoo-tuh-fuhl] / ˈbju 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.

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His mother, Eirian Parry, described the "beautiful moment" his friends carried him into the sea as he continued his recovery following the amputation.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

I just turned 32 and somehow I don’t think that just because Anne Hathaway is having a baby and still looks beautiful in her 40s, that my 40s will be a doozy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Capitol building—my first since working there nearly 30 years ago—I was reminded of just how beautiful and magisterial it is.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“David Lynch has obviously been a huge influence on me. And he was similar in his vision of the surreal, the dreamlike, the strange, the ugly and the beautiful, all kind of mashed together.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

The badger laced her claws together and leaned against the trunk that housed Clare’s beautiful glass cap mushrooms.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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