World of the word: beautiful

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There are so many beautiful things in this world, things that are full of beauty. Colors, flowers, animals, paintings, songs, all of them can be beautiful. People can also be beautiful, as well as what people wear, create, love, take care of, imagine, etc.

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beautiful

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• adj. Having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight.
• adj. Excellent; wonderful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• adj. Attractive and possessing charm.
• adj. pleasant; clear.
• adj. well executed
• adj. How beautiful that is!
• adj. How unfortunate that is!

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• adj. Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• Full of beauty; possessing qualities that delight the senses, especially the eye or the ear, or awaken admiration or approval in the mind. See beauty, 1.
• Synonyms Beautiful, Beauteous, Handsome, Pretty, Fair, Lovely, Comely, charming, all apply to that which is highly pleasing, especially to the eye.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adj. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
• adj. (of weather) highly enjoyable

Etymologies

(1520) From beauty + -ful ("full of"). Displaced earlier sheen (from Middle English schene ("beautiful"), from Old English scīene ("beautiful")), Middle English wliti ("beautiful"), from Old English wlitiġ ("beautiful"). (Wiktionary)

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