# beautiful

Pronunciation: say "BYOO-ti-fuhl" US /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/, UK /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/

## Adjective

1. Very pleasing to look at, listen to, or otherwise experience through the senses.
   - Simple: Very nice to look at or listen to, or to taste, smell, or feel.
   - _Snow had settled on the pines, leaving the whole valley beautiful._
   - _The architect filled the lobby with beautiful arches and stained glass._
2. Impressing the mind or moral sense through fitness and elegance rather than mere appearance.
   - Simple: Clever or kind in a way that feels exactly right.
   - _Her solution to the puzzle was beautiful, reaching the answer in a single step._
   - _The quiet way he cared for his ailing neighbor struck us as beautiful._
3. Regarded with strong liking or approval; very much to one's taste.
   - Simple: Liked very much, or thought of as really good.
   - _My favorite pizza place now delivers until midnight, which is just beautiful._
   - _After this month, a long weekend with nothing on the calendar would be beautiful._
5. Used after a noun for emphasis, as in the house beautiful, or ironically, as a comment on something that has gone wrong.
   - Simple: Said after a noun to add strong feeling, or said about something bad to mean the opposite, as a joke.
   - _The magazine promoted its vision of the house beautiful, full of handmade furniture and fresh flowers._
   - _So the printer jams the moment guests arrive, beautiful._

## Noun

4. A person who possesses beauty; also used as a term of address when speaking directly to someone.
   - Simple: A person who is very good-looking. People also use it as a name when talking to someone.
   - _Good morning, beautiful, breakfast is already on the table._
   - _"Morning, beautiful," he said, setting a cup of coffee on the nightstand as his wife slowly woke up._

## Origin

From Middle English bewteful or beautefull, meaning attractive to the eye, formed from "beauty" plus the suffix "-ful". In this sense it largely replaced the Old English word fæġer, which gave us "fair".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/beautiful (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).