Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Beautiful, especially to the sight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Possessing beauty; sensuously beautiful.
- Synonyms Handsome, Pretty, etc. See beautiful.
Wiktionary
- adj. archaic beautiful
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Mostly poetic Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight
Examples
“They lay in beauteous sleep upon the bosom of the ocean, in colouring half intense, half languid, like the tints of the dog-rose and wild violet.”
“In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast.”
“The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.”
“It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the usual average.”
“Saying "beauteous" after watching our Russian movie.”
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“For this reason, seasoned filmgoers will likely be neither as astonished by its elliptical narrative structure and montage nor as stunned by the beauteous unfolding of sensory and conceptual permutations representing cosmological reality as they might have been three-to-four decades ago.”
“Roger is home with the beauteous young Jane, who adoringly presents him with copies of his memoir, Sterling's Gold.”
“Surely the day will come when its beauteous light shall shed illumination upon the assemblage of man.”
“But, like I said, if I can walk, I'll run back to Llanview to the beauteous bosoms of my Cramer women and the hoped-for-by-fans big face off with Viki.”
“Showing her the photos of my kids in all their beauteous youth.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beauteous’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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You are so GOOD LOOKING!
Words about looking good
a dish, dishy, snazzy, styling, looker, handsome, beautiful, delicious, dessert, yummy, tantalizing, hormone hunk and 55 more...
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2 x 3 vowels
triphthong is not the right word for these?
geoarchaeology, beauteous, dioecious, zooarchaeology, squeegeeing, Nymphaeaceae, Phaeophyceae, aeaeae, euouae
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of ...
Words I met while reading Cervantes' story.
lance, hale, lanthorn-jaws, knight-errantry, nay, expostulate, puling, massy, agreeable delusions, pasteboard, bestrid, sallied and 148 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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botheyesgreen's Words
joy, coriander, mandarine, avocado, strawberry, peach, hobgoblin, malfeasance, saturation, bourbon, hoopoe, quango and 22 more...
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Telute's Words
cat, library, librarian, bibliophile, bibliophily, bibliotheca, dreams, clouds, reading, books, literature, fiction and 2 more...
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Balsamic's Words
vignette, itinerant, maladies, hagiographic, dour, ethereal, credence, solemnity, provenance, vestigial, dissonance, melancholia and 221 more...
Tweets
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Jubjub This word is absolutely horrible. Or should I say horrideous? Nov 14, 2009
jeffazi beautiful, especially to the sight (poetic). Oct 30, 2007