Beauty
['bjuːtɪ] or ['bjuti]
Definition
(noun.) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses.
(noun.) an outstanding example of its kind; 'his roses were beauties'; 'when I make a mistake it's a beaut'.
Editor: Sallust--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
(n.) A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
(n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
(n.) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Elegance, grace, symmetry.[2]. Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.[3]. Fine part, special grace, particular excellence.[4]. Beautiful person (especially a beautiful woman).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loveliness, grace, fairness, seemliness, comeliness, picturesqueness,exquisiteness, adornment, embellishment
ANT:Foulness, ugliness, deformity, hideousness, bareness, unattractiveness
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Definition
n. a pleasing combination of qualities in a person or object: a particular grace or excellence: a beautiful person esp. a woman also applied collectively to the beautiful women of a special place: (pl.) beautiful passages or extracts from the poets.—v.t. (Shak.) to make beautiful.—adj. Beau′teous full of beauty: fair: handsome.—adv. Beau′teously.—ns. Beau′teousness; Beau′tifier one who or that which beautifies or makes beautiful.—adj. Beau′tiful fair: with qualities that give delight to the senses esp. the eye and ear or which awaken admiration in the mind.—adv. Beau′tifully.—v.t. Beau′tify to make beautiful: to grace: to adorn.—v.i. (rare) to become beautiful or more beautiful.—ns. Beau′ty-sleep the sleep before midnight considered the most refreshing; Beau′ty-spot a patch placed on the face to heighten or draw attention to a woman's beauty; a foil or anything that emphasises beauty by contrast.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings pleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child, indicates love reciprocated and a happy union.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Examples
- The animal was not there at all, only the heavy, broken beauty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Men are vain of the beauty of their country, of their county, of their parish. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He had a rather heavy, slack, broken beauty, white and firm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The beauty, oh the beauty of them, and oh the paradisal bliss, if she should have a perfect bouquet and could give it to Gudrun the next day. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And yet as we saw it that autumn morning, it was not its beauty which would be the first thing to impress the observer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Beauty of little consequence, indeed! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This man had stood before me, with all his god-like beauty but a few days past! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Commend me to Fennimore Cooper to find beauty in the Indians, and to Grimes to find it in the Arabs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The order and convenience of a palace are no less essential to its beauty, than its mere figure and appearance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And, my dear Jane, I never saw you look in greater beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- My bandanna handkerchief--one of six beauties given to me by my lady--was handy in my pocket. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As they passed into other rooms these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The quiet place, the pure air, and all the pleasure and beauties of spring, will restore you in a few days. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I would not give the old lady for a dozen beauties. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- After our breakfast we inquired for a guide, to show us some of the beauties of that part of the country. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nature, or nature's favourite, this lovely earth, presented her most unrivalled beauties in resplendent and sudden exhibition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The combined languages of Earth men hold no words to convey to the mind the gorgeous beauties of the scene. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was alive to every new scene; joyful when he saw the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise, and recommence a new day. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You must have become in some degree attached to the house,--you, who have an eye for natural beauties, and a good deal of the organ of Adhesiveness? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Or who paid the debts of some of the Court beauties . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You forget about the beauties of a civil war when you keep your mind too much on your work. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Ralph did it justice, remarked some faults, but applauded the beauties. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But if we are blind to the beauties of truth, it is astonishing that we should not open our eyes to the inconvenience of falsity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We met: Watson's performance was read; there were some beauties in it, but many defects. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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