Word Meanings - BEAUTIFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;

Additional info about word: BEAUTIFUL

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; pretty; delightful. See Fine. -- Beau"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Beau"ti*ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEAUTIFUL)

• Attractive
• Winning
• alluring
• tempting
• inviting
• engaging
• captivating
• fascinating
• enticing
• interesting
• charming
• pleasant
• beautiful
• agreeable
• Beaming
• Shining
• gleaming
• bright
• radiant
• transparent
• translucid
• Blooming
• Flourishing
• fair
• flowering
• blossoming
• young
• Fair
• Open
• clear
• spotless
• unspotted
• untarnished
• reasonable
• unblemished
• serene
• just
• honorable
• equitable
• impartial
• Fine
• Thin
• minute
• slender
• delicate
• pure
• smooth
• filmy
• gauzy
• keen
• artistic
• choice
• finished
• high
• Grand
• noble
• sensitive
• refined
• generous
• excellent
• superior
• pretty
• showy
• elegant
• ostentatious
• presumptuous
• nice
• casuistical
• subtle

Related words: (words related to BEAUTIFUL)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CHOICE
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
• BEAMFUL
  Beamy; radiant.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• BEAMLESS
  1. Not having a beam. 2. Not emitting light.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• WINNOW
  comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.