cuter

Adjective

cute (comparative cuter, superlative cutest)

1. 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.
2. 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

3. Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
   • He's got such cute buns.
4. 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.
5. 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)

   Synonyms:

   clever, shrewd

6. (especially) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
   • There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.