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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.

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Appeared in the May 27, 2026, print edition as 'Bleak and Beautiful'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Her favourite song is Beautiful, and its mix of vulnerability and defiance quietly echoes through her own work.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

She voted in favor of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which allocated $46.5 billion for border wall construction and additional funds for hiring Border Patrol agents.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

On the coffee table lay a large format book titled “The World’s Most Beautiful Paintings,” or something similar.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

All these years, I had sat with her, the spirit that had changed me from Beautiful Round Face to the Ugly One.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis




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