beautiful 
beau·ti·ful (byo̵̅o̅t′ə fəl; often byo̵̅o̅t′ē-)
adjective
having beauty; very pleasing to the eye, ear, mind, etc.
used to express approval or pleasure
the beautiful
- the quality of beauty
- those who are beautiful
beautiful
modif.
Having qualities of beauty
lovely, attractive, appealing, pleasing, pretty, fair, fine, nice, dainty, good-looking, delightful, charming, enticing, fascinating, admirable, rich, graceful, sightly, ideal, delicate, refined, elegant, symmetrical, well-formed, shapely, harmonious, well-made, aesthetic, splendid, gorgeous, brilliant, radiant, exquisite, dazzling, flowerlike, resplendent, magnificent, superb, ornamental, decorative, marvelous, wonderful, glorious, grand, awe-inspiring, imposing, majestic, august, wondrous, excellent, impressive, showy, sublime, heavenly*. Antonyms
ugly*, hideous*, unsightly. * Applied especially to human beings
lovely, pretty, attractive, good-looking, comely, fair, handsome, graceful, exquisite, gorgeous, refined, delicate, cute, divine, blooming, rosy, bonny, beauteous, statuesque, Junoesque, pulchritudinous, well-favored, bewitching, enchanting, appealing, ravishing, personable, pleasing, taking, winning, alluring, glamorous, shapely, voluptuous, svelte, lissome, radiant, stunning*, classy*, easy on the eyes*, long on looks*, eye-filling*, built*, well-built*, sexy*, looking good*, foxy*; see also handsome 2.Antonyms
plain, unattractive, ill-favored. Applied especially to works of art
beautiful is applied to that which gives the highest degree of aesthetic pleasure to the senses or to the mind and suggests that the object of delight approximates one's conception of an ideal; lovely refers to that which delights by inspiring affection or warm admiration; handsome implies attractiveness by reason of pleasing proportions, symmetry, elegance, etc. and carries connotations of masculinity, dignity, or impressiveness; pretty implies a dainty, delicate, or graceful quality in that which pleases and carries connotations of femininity or diminutiveness; good-looking is closely equivalent to handsome or pretty, suggesting a pleasing appearance but not expressing the fine distinctions of either word; comely applies to persons only and suggests a wholesome attractiveness of form and features rather than a high degree of beauty; fair, in this comparison, suggests beauty that is fresh, bright, or flawless and, when applied to persons, is used esp. of complexion and features; beauteous, equivalent to beautiful in poetry and lofty prose, is now sometimes used in humorously disparaging references to beauty
Preposition: as
- dream: Everything must be perfect, thought of and taken care of so that the wedding day turns out as beautiful as a dream.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: The love we shared made everything so beautiful in life.
Modifies a noun
- countryside: The trails provide tranquil walks, horse or bike riding, through beautiful countryside.
- scenery: All of this is in the midst of some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
- beach: Three cocktail parties cruise are set a jazz trio a beautiful beach.
- surroundings: To complement its beautiful surroundings, the power station is designed to be similar in style to local estate buildings.
- garden: Walking through the beautiful gardens there is a quiet, relaxing atmosphere.
- island: We have just come back from a week on the beautiful Ionian island of Kefalonia.
Modifying Another Word
- stunningly: A stunningly beautiful, asymmetric crystal came from the fountain of Lourdes in France.
- breathtakingly: With the settings at their highest everything looks breathtakingly beautiful.
- hauntingly: Heroes and Villains, Plymouth Rock, and Surf's Up, are as hauntingly beautiful as advertised.
- strikingly: The church is extremely interesting from the architectural point and strikingly beautiful.
- achingly: Such Longing is danced to the achingly beautiful meditations of Chopin's Nocturnes and Etudes, which are played live.
- outstandingly: It is an outstandingly beautiful area, famous for mountain Gorillas and hundreds of local bird species.
Infinitive complement
- look: The film is beautiful to look at, the cityscape in winter particularly memorable, and yet remains parochial and small minded.
Used with adjective complement
- look: Then I'll fit right in on Myspace: ) Just kidding - you peeps all look beautiful.
- become: All that was fit to adorn Him came to Him and became beautiful by Him.
Preposition: in
- appearance: The machines body adopts a streamlined design which is both beautiful in appearance and comfortable in the hand.
- world: The caves are spectacular and are considered to some of the most beautiful in the world.
Preposition: with
- poster: Very beautiful with four poster and half tester beds and the Drawing Room has a piano.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila' la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.
And bound for the same bourn as I, On every road I wandered by, Trod beside me, close and dear, The beautiful and death-struck year.
You are suspended in me beautiful and frozen, I preserve you, in me you are safe.
The Beautiful and the Damned.
An isle under Ionian skies Beautiful as a wreck of Paradise.
Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.
Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the L said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.
Great is the L, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Parce que le Beau est toujours e¤ tonnant, il serait absurde de supposer que ce qui est e¤ tonnant est toujours beau. Just because the beautiful is always shocking, it would be absurd to suppose that that which is shocking is always beautiful.
A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.
Ah beautiful passionate body That never has ached with a heart!
C'est avec de beaux sentiments qu'on fait de la mauvaise litte¤ rature. Bad literature is written with beautiful sentiments.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
Aren't all beautiful things made by renunciation?
Une belle femme qui a les qualite¤ s d'un honne" te homme est ce qu'il y a au monde d'un commerce plus de¤ licieux: l'on trouve en elle tout le me¤ rite des deux sexes. A beautiful woman who has the qualities of a gentleman is the most pleasing person in all the world: one finds in her all the merit of both sexes.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good.Butit is better to be good than to be ugly.
Black is beautiful.
He desired all beautiful thingsöeven God.
A football team is like a beautiful woman.When you do not tell her so, she forgets she is beautiful.
For she was beautifulöher beauty made The bright world dim, and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.
O the Harbour of Fowey Is a beautiful spot, And it's there I enjowey To sail in a yot; Or to race in a yacht Round a mark or a buoyö Such a beautiful spacht Is the Harbour of Fuoy!
Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good: I am a God and cannot find it there.
The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.
House Beautiful is play lousy.
How beautiful the Republic wasöunder the Empire.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.
Die Szenen unsers Lebens gleichen den Bildern in groÞer Mosaik, welche in der N a« he keineWirkung tun, sondern von denen man fern stehn muss, um sie sch o« n zu finden. Thescenes ofour liferesemble picturesinrough mosaic; theyareineffective fromcloseup, and havetobe viewed from a distance if theyare to seem beautiful.
Life, if you have a bent for it, is a beautiful thing. It consists, I do believe, of having a sense of urgency. 174
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating heartsand living affections,onlyassomany things belonging tothemasteröso long asthefailure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miseryand toilöso long is it impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
The most beautiful sight in orbitis a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals whichgo out almost ina hemisphere It'sreally a spectacular sight.
Las grandes bellezas de la creacio¤ n no pueden a un tiempo ser vistas y cantadas: es necesario que vuelvan al alma empalidecidas por la memoria infiel. The most beautiful things on earth cannot be seen and sung at the same time: they must return to the soul weakened by unfaithful memory.
Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o u' il y a le moins de matie' re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense¤ e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.
Y yo, yo, Sen or, no tendre¤ nunca una querida tan linda como esa querida que lucen los cromos de los libros viciosos! And I, Sir,I'll never havea mistress asbeautifulasthose in the pictures of obscene books!
I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.
Il faut e¤ crire pour soi, avant tout. C'est la seule chance de faire beau. It isnecessary to write for oneself, above all.It isthe only hope of creating something beautiful.
A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swiftö A love in desolation masked;öa Power Girt round with weakness;öit can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;öeven whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley
The perpetual hunger to be beautifuland thatthirsttobe loved which is the real curse of Eve.
A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.
The scientist doesnot study nature because it isuseful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.
The saddest and most beautiful sight I have ever seen.
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
Woman, silence makes a woman beautiful.
Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.
People don't very much like things that are beautifulötheyare so far from their nasty little minds.
Oh! They're too beautiful to live, much too beautiful!
Though wetravel theworld over tofind the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Summer afternoonösummer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
Machines are worshipped because theyare beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.
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