Cute

3 definitions found

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

  Cute \Cute\ (k[=u]t), a. [An abbrev. of acute.]
     1. Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. pleasantly attractive, in a delicate way; -- said of
        children, young ladies, pet animals and some objects, but


        seldom of adults; as, a cute child; a cute kitten; a cute
        little house; a cute statue.
        [PJC]
  
     3. smart-alecky or impertinent; as, a cute remark.
        [PJC]
  
     4. affectedly clever. --RHUD
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cute
       adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or
              quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little
              apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn:
              {cunning}]
       2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious
          performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
          [syn: {precious}]
       [also: {cuter}]

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

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "cute":
     Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adorable,
     adroit, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, attractive,
     authoritative, beautiful, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, clean,
     clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, daedal,
     dainty, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, delicate, designing,
     dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fancy, feline,
     foxy, good, goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, ingenious,
     insidious, inventive, knowing, lovely, magisterial, masterful,
     masterly, mignon, neat, no mean, pawky, politic, pretty,
     professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful,
     scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick,
     slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical,
     statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle,
     supple, tactful, tactical, the compleat, the complete, trickish,
     tricksy, tricky, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-done, wily,
     workmanlike