beautiful

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

   a beautiful child

2. 2
   adj

   (of weather) highly enjoyable

   what a beautiful day

3. 3
   adj

   Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.

   Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.

4. 4
   adj

   That one likes very much.

   He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.

5. 5
   adj

   Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.

   Beethoven's most beautiful sonata

6. 6
   adj

   Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.

   The skater performed a beautiful axel.

7. 7
   noun

   Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.

   The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonusder. Old Latin *duenelos Vulgar Latin bellus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Vulgar Latin -tās Vulgar Latin *bellitātem Anglo-Norman biautébor. Middle English beaute Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English bewteful English beautiful From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive…