Beautifuls
having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind:
a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
excellent of its kind:
a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; the chef served us a beautiful roast of beef.
wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.
the concept of beauty (usually preceded by the).
(used with a plural verb) beautiful things or people collectively (usually preceded by the):
the good and the beautiful.
the ideal of beauty (usually preceded by the):
to strive to attain the beautiful.
wonderful; fantastic:
you got two front-row seats? beautiful!
extraordinary; incredible: used ironically:
your car broke down in the middle of the freeway? beautiful!
adjective
possessing beauty; aesthetically pleasing
highly enjoyable; very pleasant: the party was beautiful
adj.
mid-15c., from beauty + -ful. the beautiful people “the fashionable set” first attested 1964 in (where else?) “vogue” (it also was the t-tle of a 1941 play by u.s. dramatist william saroyan). house beautiful is from “pilgrim’s progress,” where it is a proper name of a place. related: beautifully.
interjection
an exclamation of approval and gratification (mid-1800s+)
noun
a good-looking woman •used in direct address: where’ve you been all my life, beautiful? (1920s+)
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