Thesaurus:beautiful
English
Adjective
Sense: pleasing to the eye
Synonyms
- attractive [⇒ thesaurus]
- beauteous
- beautifool
- beautiful
- beautimous (Southern US)
- bona vardering (Polari)
- bonnie (Scottish, Geordie)
- breathtaking
- captivating
- comely
- cute
- esculent (idiomatic)
- exquisite
- fair
- fetching
- fine-looking
- good-looking
- good enough to eat (idiomatic)
- handsome
- knockout
- lovely
- lovesome
- lustrious
- nice
- nice-looking
- personable
- physically attractive
- pretty
- prettiful
- pulchritudinous
- shapely [⇒ thesaurus]
- sheen (archaic, poetic)
- sightly
- stunning
- swanlike (figurative)
- well-favoured
- winsome
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See also
Further reading
- “845. beauty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “beautiful” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.