cute

/kjuːt/

cute adjective: possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.

Adjective

cute (comparative cuter, superlative cutest)

Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
Synonyms:

pretty
Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- He's got such cute buns.
- I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle her cute little ass as she took off her panties.2010, Vernon J. Geberth, Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation, page 116
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
- Then Turpin being so very cute,
  He hid his money in his boot.ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
- 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.1908, Winston Churchill, Letter to his fianceé Clementine
Synonyms:

clever, shrewd
(especially) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
- Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key.1963, The Tablet, volume 217

cute meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

cute in Hindi

having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals: प्यारा pyārā

cute in Tamil

having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals: அன்பான aṉpāṉa

cute in Marathi

क्यूट

cute in Urdu

having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals: معصوم

More languagesFewer languages

cute in Bengali: চতুর, বুদ্ধিমান, চালাক
cute in Telugu: క్యూట్
cute in Malayalam: ചന്തമുള്ള, സുന്ദരമായ, ഓമനത്ത്വമുള്ള
cute in Kannada: ಮುದ್ದಾದ, ಅಂದದ, ಜಾಣ, ಸುಟಿ
cute in Gujarati: ક્યૂટ
cute in Assamese: মৰমলগা moromloga
cute in Pashto: ټوسپارۍ tuspārëy
cute in Arabic: فَاتِن fātin, قَشِيب qašīb, جَذَّاب jaḏḏāb
cute in Malay: comel
cute in Indonesian: imut
cute in Persian: ناز nâz, ملوس malus
cute in Thai: น่ารัก nâa-rák
cute in Vietnamese: dễ thương, đáng yêu

Examples of cute in a sentence

Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
"This time we aren't interested in anything cute or cryptic.1957 May, William P. McGivern, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 102, column 2:
"The police are cute enough, of course, to choose either a Roman Catholic or a materialist as the magistrate."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...
We state a cute result that can be derived from our calcuations^([sic]).2012, “Vertex neighborhoods, low conductance cuts, and good seeds for local community methods”, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD...

All 40 example sentences with cute

Synonyms of cute

pretty
clever
shrewd
having features mainly attributed to infants and small
cuddly animals

All synonyms of cute

Forms of cute

comparative	cuter
superlative	cutest

Origin of cute

Aphetic form of acute, originally meaning “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang) c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.

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Questions about cute

What does cute mean?: Cute means possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
What is cute in Hindi?: Cute in Hindi is प्यारा (pyārā). See Cute meaning in Hindi.
How do you use cute in a sentence?: Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
What part of speech is cute?: Cute is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cute?: Cute is pronounced /kjuːt/.

Words near cute in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: cute (page history and authors); cute (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cute (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cute (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cute (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cute (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cute (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); মৰমলগা (Assamese) (page history and authors); ټوسپارۍ (Pashto) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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