beautiful
/ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.22 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
adj
Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
adj
That one likes very much.
adj
Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
adj
Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
noun
Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
Example Sentences
- "Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful."
- "There's a beautiful lake by the town."
- "[A]s amongſt the Moores, the Iettieſt blacke are deem'd / The beautifulſt of them; […]"
- "“Is Olga de Coude very beautiful?” she asked. And Tarzan laughed and kissed her again. “Not one-tenth so beautiful as you, dear,” he said."
- "It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion."
- "It is a beautiful kitchen! — It is beautiful."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin *duenelos Latin bellus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -itātem Vulgar Latin *bellitātem Anglo-Norman biautébor. Middle English beaute Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English bewteful English beautiful From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/
- British English: /ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/