BEAUTY

beauty

(noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

beauty, beaut

(noun) an outstanding example of its kind; “his roses were beauties”; “when I make a mistake it’s a beaut”

smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish

(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

beauty (countable and uncountable, plural beauties)

The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

An excellent or egregious example of something.

(with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

(particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

(archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

Synonyms

• (property, quality): good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, See Thesaurus:beauty

• (someone who is beautiful): belle, looker, good looker, See Thesaurus:beautiful person

• (something pleasing): gem, jewel

Antonyms

• (property, quality): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

Interjection

beauty

(Canada) Thanks!

(Canada) Cool!

Adjective

beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.

Verb

beauty (third-person singular simple present beauties, present participle beautying, simple past and past participle beautied)

(obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.

Source: Wiktionary

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Beau"ty, n.; pl. Beauties. Etym: [OE. beaute, beute, OF. beauté, biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau.]

1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman. All the admired beauties of Verona. Shak.

4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.] She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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