What does "beauty" mean?
The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
Beauty
/ˈbjuːti/ adj, intj, noun, verb
adj, intj, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Grammar: beauty is listed as adj, intj, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: looker, comeliness, loveliness, prettiness.
- Useful contrasts: awful, awkward, beastliness.
- Usage evidence: Beauty lies in the eyes of the one who sees.
How to use "beauty"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness. uncountable
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."
- 2 the qualities that give pleasure to the senses wordnet
- 3 Someone who is beautiful. countable, uncountable
"Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty."
- 4 an outstanding example of its kind wordnet
- 5 Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful. countable, in-plural, uncountable
"There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties."
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- 6 a very attractive or seductive looking woman wordnet
- 7 Something that is particularly good or pleasing. countable, uncountable
"What a goal! That was a real beauty!"
- 8 An excellent or egregious example of something. countable, uncountable
"He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!"
- 9 The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. countable, uncountable
"The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!"
- 10 A beauty quark (now called bottom quark). countable, obsolete, particle, uncountable
- 11 Beauty treatment; cosmetology. countable, uncountable
"a hair and beauty salon"
- 12 Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty."
- 13 Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry. archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To make beautiful. obsolete, transitive
Adjective
- 1 Of high quality, well done. Canada
"He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone."
Intj
- 1 Thanks! Canada
- 2 Cool! Canada
"It's the long weekend. Beauty!"
Antonyms
Example
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the one who sees."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "beauty"?
Common synonyms include: looker, comeliness, loveliness, prettiness, stunner, adonises.
How do you use "beauty" in a sentence?
Beauty lies in the eyes of the one who sees.
How do you pronounce "beauty"?
Pronounced /ˈbjuːti/.
Etymology
From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.