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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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“Seurat and the Sea,” a scholarly and astonishingly beautiful show now at the Courtauld Gallery, and organized by Karen Serres, the museum’s senior curator of paintings, fills that critical lacuna.

From The Wall Street Journal

The hosts erupt with laughter, saying that they’d always thought the chant was something more “beautiful and majestic.”

From Los Angeles Times

Or maybe, Elizabeth Goldring impishly suggests in “Holbein: Renaissance Master,” he meant that he’d happily take Communion if only the table were more beautiful—dressed up, say, like a Catholic altar.

From The Wall Street Journal

She also performed a hauntingly beautiful rendition of her soul pop track A Couple Minutes as the award show, which celebrates black talent across the entertainment industry, marked its 30th anniversary.

From BBC

The first thing I noticed was a British group who weren’t known for being very beautiful, very handsome, and their roadies were definitely not.

From Los Angeles Times