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beautiful

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːtɪfʊl, -f(ə)l/

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Definition of beautiful

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.

Spelling tip

bare elegant arms are usually beautiful.

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Definition of beautiful in the US English dictionary

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