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Beautiful definition

Beautiful is an adjective meaning "delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration." It has 2 meanings, listed below with example sentences.

Part of speech
adjective
Syllables
3
Letters
9
How common
Everyday word

Beautiful as an adjective

  1. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

    "a beautiful child"

  2. (of weather) highly enjoyable

    "what a beautiful day"

Synonyms and antonyms

Opposite: ugly.

All synonyms of beautiful, sense by sense

How to say beautiful

Beautiful has 3 syllables. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

BEAUTIFUL in word games

Scrabble
14
Words With Friends
18
Anagrams
0

Is BEAUTIFUL a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check BEAUTIFUL in the word checker, or unscramble BEAUTIFUL to see the shorter words in its letters.

Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.