beautiful
(adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; “a beautiful child”; “beautiful country”; “a beautiful painting”; “a beautiful theory”; “a beautiful party”
beautiful
(adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable; “what a beautiful day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)
Attractive and possessing beauty.
(of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
• The term carries a distinctly feminine aspect and is mostly not applied to men (in which case handsome is more appropriate and de rigueur).
• The comparatives beautifuler and beautifuller, and the superlatives beautifulest and beautifullest have also occasionally been used, but are nonstandard.
• (possessing charm and attractive): beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang)
• (of the weather): clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny
• (well executed): excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful
• (ironic: how unfortunate): great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)
• See also beautiful
• (possessing charm and attractive): grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful
• (of the weather): bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet
• (well executed): average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak
beautiful (plural beautifuls)
Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
Source: Wiktionary
Beau"ti*ful, a.
Definition: Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames.
Syn.
– Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; pretty; delightful. See Fine.
– Beau"ti*ful*ly, adv.
– Beau"ti*ful*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
