Beautiful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beautiful \Beau"ti*ful\ (b[=u]"t[i^]*f[.u]l), a.
     Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the
     sight or the mind.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is


           more beautiful than a parallelogram.     --Lord Kames.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
          pretty; delightful. See {Fine}. -- {Beau"ti*ful*ly},
          adv. -- {Beau"ti*ful*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beautiful
       adj 1: delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional
              admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country";
              "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a
              beautiful party" [ant: {ugly}]
       2: aesthetically pleasing
       3: (of weather) highly enjoyable; "what a beautiful day"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "beautiful":
     admirable, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, alluring, appealing,
     art-conscious, artistic, arty, attractive, beauteous, bonny,
     charming, choice, comely, delightful, elegant, endowed with beauty,
     excellent, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fine, first-rate,
     flowerlike, glorious, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, gracile,
     handsome, hear, heavy, incomparable, lovely, magnificent,
     of consummate art, ornamental, painterly, personable, pleasant,
     pleasing, pretty, proper, pulchritudinous, radiant, resplendent,
     smashing, spectacular, splendid, stunning, sublime, superb,
     superior, tasteful, well done, well-favored, wonderful