Beauty

Quick meaning: Beauty is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

More Meanings

1. Someone who is beautiful.
2. (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
3. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
4. An excellent or egregious example of something.
5. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
6. (particle physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
7. Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

Example Sentences

Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

"The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."

‘Say, hast thou seen enough!’ ‘I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,’ I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.

Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

Word Forms

• beauties
• beautying
• beautied

Synonyms for beauty

Depending on context, synonyms include good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, belle, looker.

Antonyms for beauty

Common opposites include repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beaut, sweetheart, lulu, looker, stunner, smasher.

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