cutest
cutest is the superlative form of cute.
Meaning of cute
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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Then Turpin being so very cute,
- Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
Questions about cutest
- What is cutest the superlative form of?
- Cutest is the superlative form of cute.
Words near cutest in the dictionary
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