beautiful

Meanings

Adjective

• Attractive and possessing beauty.
• Good, admirable.
• Pleasant; clear.
• Well executed.

Noun

• Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.

Related

Similar words

• beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot , lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit
• clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny
• excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful
• great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)

Opposite words

• grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful
• bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet
• average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak

Origin

• From Middle English bewteful, beautefull, equivalent to beauty + -ful. Largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).