beauty synonyms

beauty

n.

  1. A pleasing physical quality

    attractiveness, grace, loveliness, comeliness, fairness, prettiness, handsomeness, pulchritude, charm, delicacy, exquisiteness, elegance, harmony, attraction, appeal, fascination, allurement, shapeliness, majesty, magnificence, good looks, winsomeness, glamour, bloom, radiance, class*.

    Antonyms ugliness*, homeliness, deformity. *

  2. An exalted mental or moral quality

    value, merit, excellence; see virtue 1.

  3. Use or value

    advantage, attraction, excellence, worth; see advantage 3.

  4. A beautiful thing or person, particularly a woman

    goddess, belle, ornament, attraction, vision, picture, belle chose (French), siren, Circe, enchantress, seductress, Venus, femme fatale, charmer, angel, looker*, eyeful*, knockout*, dreamboat*, dish*, doll*, stunner*, good-looker*, sex goddess*, fox*, ten*. *

    Antonyms witch*, blemish*, fright.

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