beauty

Meanings

Noun

• The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
• Someone who is beautiful.
• Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
• An excellent or egregious example of something.
• The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
• A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
• Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
• Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
• Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

Interjection

• Thanks!
• Cool!

Adjective

• Of high quality, well done.

Verb

• To make beautiful.

Related

Similar words

• good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness,
• belle, looker, good looker,
• gem, jewel

Opposite words

• repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

Origin

• From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitās, from Latin bellus; see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.