beautiful
Syllables: beau·ti·ful/ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl//ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/
beautiful adjective: possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
Adjective
beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)
- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
- There's a beautiful lake by the town.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
- the house beautiful
- That one likes very much.
- He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
- You've done a beautiful thing today.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
- Beethoven's most beautiful sonata
- It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
- The skater performed a beautiful axel.
Noun
beautiful (plural beautifuls)
- Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
- The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
- Hey, beautiful!
beautiful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
beautiful in Hindi
- attractive
- आकर्षक ākarṣak, मोहक mohak, मनोहर manohar, सुन्दर sundar, प्यारा pyārā, ख़ूबसूरत xūbsūrat
- of weather: pleasant, clear
- मनोरम manoram
beautiful in Tamil
- attractive
- அழகிய aḻakiya
- of weather: pleasant, clear
- அழகிய aḻakiya
beautiful in Marathi
- attractive
- सुंदर sundar
beautiful in Urdu
- attractive
- خُوبْصُورَت xūbsūrat, سُنْدَر sundar, حَسِین hasīn, پْیارا pyārā, قَشَن٘گ qaśaṅg, زیبا zebā
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- beautiful in Bengali
- সুন্দর śundor, খুবসুরত khubśurot, হাসিন haśin
- beautiful in Telugu
- అందమైన andamaina, చక్కని cakkani, ఆహ్లాదకరమైన āhlādakaramaina
- beautiful in Malayalam
- സുന്ദരം sundaraṁ
- beautiful in Kannada
- ಸುಂದರ sundara
- beautiful in Punjabi
- ਸੁਹਣਾ suhṇā
- beautiful in Gujarati
- સુંદર sundar, રૂપાળું rūpāḷũ, ખૂબસૂરત khūbsūrat
- beautiful in Odia
- ସୁନ୍ଦର sundara
- beautiful in Sanskrit
- सुन्दर sundara, सुरूप surūpa, मञ्जु mañju
- beautiful in Sinhala
- ලස්සන lassana, සුන්දර sundara
- beautiful in Assamese
- ধুনীয়া dhunia, ভাল লগা bhal loga, সুন্দৰ xundor
- beautiful in Nepali
- सुन्दर sundar, राम्रो rāmro
- beautiful in Pashto
- ښکلی ẍkwëlay, حسين hasin, زيبا zebā
- beautiful in Tagalog
- maganda
- beautiful in Arabic
- جَمِيل jamīl, مَلِيح malīḥ
- beautiful in Malay
- cantik, indah, molek
- beautiful in Indonesian
- indah, cantik, ayu, molek
- beautiful in Thai
- สุนทร sǔn-tɔɔn, สวย sǔai, งาม ngaam
- beautiful in Vietnamese
- đẹp, xinh đẹp
- beautiful in Myanmar
- လှသော hla.sau:, လှပ hla.pa.
- Kashmiri
- شوٗبوُن śūbvun, خوٗبصوٗرتھ khūbsūrth, سۄندَر sọndar
Examples of beautiful in a sentence
- These carnations smell beautiful but those daffodils smell funny.
- [A]s amongſt the Moores, the Iettieſt blacke are deem'd / The beautifulſt of them; […]1622, Michael Drayton, “The Sixe and Twentieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […]...
- “Is Olga de Coude very beautiful?” she asked.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 214:
- It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- It is a beautiful kitchen! — It is beautiful.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain):
Synonyms of beautiful
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Antonyms
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Forms of beautiful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more beautiful |
| superlative | most beautiful |
| Noun | |
| plural | beautifuls |
Origin of beautiful
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
Words formed from beautiful
Phrases with beautiful
Questions about beautiful
- What does beautiful mean?
- Beautiful means possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- What is beautiful in Hindi?
- Beautiful in Hindi is आकर्षक (ākarṣak), मोहक (mohak), मनोहर (manohar). See Beautiful meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use beautiful in a sentence?
- These carnations smell beautiful but those daffodils smell funny.
- What part of speech is beautiful?
- Beautiful can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce beautiful?
- Beautiful is pronounced /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/ (UK).
Words near beautiful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: beautiful (page history and authors); राम्रो (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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