The meaning of BEAUTIFUL is having qualities of beauty : exciting aesthetic pleasure.

If you say that someone is beautiful, you are implying that they are nicer to look at than if you said they were attractive, good-looking, handsome, or pretty. If you say that someone is gorgeous or stunning, …

Every individual entity is beautiful, perhaps - but that leaves ugliness in plenty to be transformed or salvaged.

Definition of beautiful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

1. comely, seemly, attractive, fair, beauteous. Beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty refer to a pleasing appearance.

Beautiful definition: Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.

The adjective beautiful describes a thing that is pleasing to the senses. A field of wildflowers, a colorful sunset, and an abstract sculpture could all be considered beautiful.

The adjective beautiful describes a thing that is pleasing to the senses. A field of wildflowers, a colorful sunset, and an abstract sculpture could all be considered beautiful.

Some common synonyms of beautiful are comely, fair, handsome, lovely, and pretty. While all these words mean "exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure," beautiful applies to whatever excites the …

(Definition of beautiful from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)