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pulchritude

/pʌlkrə.t(j)uːd/[ˈpʰʌɫkɹəˌtjuːd]

pulchritude noun: physical beauty.

Noun

pulchritude (usually uncountable, plural pulchritudes)

  1. (usually) Physical beauty.
    • One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4...
    • Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.1979, The Jerk, 00:18:20

pulchritude meaning in Urdu and Bengali

pulchritude in Urdu

خوبصورتی

pulchritude in Bengali

শারীরিক সৌন্দর্য

Synonyms of pulchritude

All synonyms of pulchritude

Forms of pulchritude

pluralpulchritudes

Origin of pulchritude

From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher (“beautiful”).

Words formed from pulchritude

Questions about pulchritude

What does pulchritude mean?
Pulchritude means physical beauty.
What is pulchritude in Urdu?
Pulchritude in Urdu is خوبصورتی. See Pulchritude meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is pulchritude?
Pulchritude is a noun.
How do you pronounce pulchritude?
Pulchritude is pronounced /pʌlkrə.t(j)uːd/.
What is the plural of pulchritude?
The plural of pulchritude is pulchritudes.

Words near pulchritude in the dictionary

  1. pulcherrimins
  2. pulchrified
  3. pulchrifies
  4. pulchrify
  5. pulchrifying
  6. pulchritude
  7. pulchritudes
  8. pulchritudinous
  9. pulchritudinously
  10. pulchronomics
  11. pulchrous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulchritude (page history and authors); pulchritude (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pulchritude (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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