beauty

Main Entry:
beauty [byoo-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical attractiveness
Synonyms: adorableness, allure, allurement, artistry, attraction, bloom, charm, class, comeliness, delicacy, elegance, exquisiteness, fairness, fascination, glamor, good looks, grace, handsomeness, loveliness, polish, pulchritude, refinement, shapeliness, style, symmetry, winsomeness
Antonyms: homeliness, offensiveness, ugliness
Main Entry: beauty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: advantage
Synonyms: asset, attraction, benefit, blessing, boon, excellent, feature, good thing, importance, merit, value, worth
Antonyms: disadvantage
Related Words
Main Entry: beauty
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
Apollonian, adonic, aesthetic, artistic, artistical, aspectabund, attractive, beaming, beamy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, becoming, bleached blond, blooming, bonny, bright, cherry, comely, curious, dainty, dapper, dazzling, delicate, eesome, elegant, enchanting, esthetic, fair, featous, fine, fit to be seen, gimp, glossy, glowing, good looking, goodly, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, grand, handsome, harmonious, in full bloom, jaunty, jimp, leggiadrous, lovely, magnificent, natty, neat, not amiss, ornamental, passable, penciled, personable, pictorial, picturesque, pretty, proper, quaint, refined, resplendent, rich, rosy, rosy, sabi, seemly, shapely, shining, showy, sightly, sleek, smart, snod, sparkling, specious, splendid, spotless, spruce, sublime, superb, svelte, symmetrical, tempean, tidy, tight, tretis, tricksy, trim, undefaced, undeformed, unkempt, unspotted, venust, wabi, well, well, well
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Beauty.
Category: 2. Discriminative Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal., [Science of the perception of beauty] callaesthetics., pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned; symmetry; comeliness, fairness; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification., concinnity, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi, style., Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus., peacock, butterfly; flower, flow'ret gay rose, lily, garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel (ornament); work of art., anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower., pleasurableness., beautifying; landscape gardening; decoration; calisthenics.
-verbs
be beautiful; shine, beam, bloom; become one (accord); set off, grace., render beautiful; beautify; polish, burnish; gild (decorate); set out., "snatch a grace beyond the reach of art" [Pope].
-adjectives
beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant; attractive (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scottish]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical (regular); harmonious (color); sightly., fit to be seen, passable, not amiss., goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; jantyk jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy., bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom., brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek., rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious., artistic, artistical; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious., enchanting (pleasure-giving) [more]; becoming (accordant); ornamental., undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless (perfect).
-phrases
auxilium non leve vultus habet [Ovid]; "beauty born of murmuring sound" [Wordsworth]; "flowers preach to us if we will hear" [C.G. Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Vergil]; "none but the brave deserve the fair" [Dryden]; "thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty" [Byron].
Antonyms: ugliness
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Main Entry: angel
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sweet, kind person
Synonyms: beauty, darling, dear, dream, gem, ideal, jewel, paragon, saint, treasure
Antonyms: demon, devil, fiend
Main Entry: appeal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: power to attract, interest
Synonyms: allure, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, charm, charmingness, engagingness, fascination, glamor, interestingness, pleasingness, seductiveness
Antonyms: ugliness
Main Entry: charm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enchantment, allure
Synonyms: agreeableness, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, bewitchery, charisma, chemistry, conjuration, delightfulness, desirability, fascination, glamour, grace, it, lure, magic, magnetism, pizzazz*, something*, sorcery, spell, star quality, witchery
Antonyms: repulsion
Main Entry: composition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: structure, arrangement
Synonyms: agreement, architecture, balance, beauty, combination, concord, configuration, consonance, constitution, content, design, distribution, form, formation, harmony, layout, make-up, placing, proportion, relation, rhythm, spacing, style, symmetry, weave
Main Entry: doozy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: winner
Synonyms: beauty, humdinger, killer*, lulu, smash hit, something
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