beautiful

 
Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːtɪfʊl, -f(ə)l/

adjective

  • pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically: beautiful poetry a beautiful young woman
  • of a very high standard; excellent: she spoke in beautiful English

Phrases

the beautiful game

British
soccer.

the beautiful people

  • 1fashionable, glamorous, and privileged people.
  • 2(in the 1960s) hippies.

the body beautiful

an ideal of physical beauty: there is an array of products for producing the body beautiful

Derivatives

beautifully

adverb
[as submodifier]: the rules are beautifully simple

Spelling help

Remember that beautiful and the related words beauty and beautify are spelled with beau- at the beginning.

bare elegant arms are usually beautiful.