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cutes

cutes is the plural of cutis.

Meaning of cutis

Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

  1. The true skin, underlying the epidermis.
    • I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    corium, dermis
  2. The peridium of some fungi.

Noun

the cutes pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) cuteness
    • Chicago favorite Byrne Piven (shorn of his trademark beard) craftily dumbs himself down to play Sam as a softhearted dreamer with a bad case of the cutes.1990 July 20, Lawrence Bommer, “Soft Remembrance”, in Chicago Reader

Adjective

cutes (comparative cuteser, superlative cutesest)

  1. (Internet, humorous, informal) cute

Forms of cutes

comparativecuteser
superlativecutesest

Phrases with cutes

Questions about cutes

What does cutes mean?
Cutes means cuteness.
What is cutes the plural of?
Cutes is the plural of cutis.
What part of speech is cutes?
Cutes can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near cutes in the dictionary

  1. cutensils
  2. cuter
  3. cuterebriasis
  4. cuterebrid
  5. cuterebrids
  6. cutes
  7. cuteser
  8. cutesest
  9. cutesie
  10. cutesier
  11. cutesiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutes (page history and authors); cutis (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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