Word a Day
beautiful
What does beautiful mean?
beautiful (adjective): delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use beautiful in a sentence?
- A beautiful child. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- Beautiful country. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- A beautiful painting. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce beautiful?
/ˈbjutəfəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does beautiful come from?
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Test yourself: do you know “beautiful”?
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What does “beautiful” mean?
greatest, or the most excellent, extreme, superior, highest, or utmost
Not quite: that's what supreme means.
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
Right! That's what “beautiful” means.
properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics
Not quite: that's what proportional means.
uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added
Not quite: that's what simple means.
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