beautiful

Etymology
From, , equivalent to. In this sense, largely displaced (whence ).

Adjective

 * 1) Attractive and possessing beauty.
 * 2) Good, admirable.
 * 3)  Pleasant; clear.
 * 4) Well executed.
 * 1) Good, admirable.
 * 2)  Pleasant; clear.
 * 3) Well executed.
 * 1)  Pleasant; clear.
 * 2) Well executed.
 * 1)  Pleasant; clear.
 * 2) Well executed.
 * 1) Well executed.

Usage notes

 * When used to refer to human appearance, the word is more commonly used for women, with being more common for men, though neither is incorrect. For a man, beautiful could connote a more delicate or androgynous appearance.
 * The comparatives beautifuler and beautifuller, and the superlatives beautifulest and beautifullest have also occasionally been used, but are nonstandard.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , , , , , lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit
 * ,, , , /marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful
 * , /marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)
 * See also Thesaurus:beautiful
 * See also Thesaurus:beautiful

Antonyms

 * ,, , , , , ; unbeautiful

Related terms

 * See also Thesaurus:beautiful woman
 * See also Thesaurus:beautiful woman

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: 5@NearCheek-PalmBack RoundVert OpenA@NearJaw-PalmBack
 * Amharic: ቆንጆ
 * Arabic:, مَلِيح
 * Egyptian Arabic: جميل
 * Moroccan Arabic: غزال, جميل, زوين
 * Aramaic: שפירא
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: ধুনীয়া, ভাল লগা, সুন্দৰ
 * Asturian: guapu, guapa, formosu, formosa
 * Auslan:
 * Avar: берцинаб
 * Azerbaijani:, , yaraşıqlı
 * Bashkir: матур
 * Basque: eder
 * Belait: jie batien
 * Belarusian: выда́тны, прыго́жы, харо́шы, красі́вы, урадлі́вы, фа́йны
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton: ,
 * Brunei Bisaya: bagak
 * Brunei Malay: bisai
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: လှသော,
 * Buryat: һайхан
 * Catalan:, , , formósa, ,
 * Cebuano: matahom, maanyag
 * Central Dusun: olumis
 * Chamicuro: pya'c̈homa, pewa puti'na
 * Chechen: хаза
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 靚, 好睇, 漂亮 , 美麗
 * Dungan: җүн, җүн-ён, җиҗүн, җүнмый
 * Eastern Min: 俊, 漂亮
 * Hokkien:, , 好看,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Teochew: 雅
 * Wu: 漂亮, 好看
 * Coastal Kadazan: olumis
 * Coptic: ⲛⲉⲥⲉ
 * Cornish: teg
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dalmatian: bial
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese:, penur, fagur
 * Fijian: totoka
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: biel, biele
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მშვენიერი, ლამაზი, ტურფა, საუცხოო, საყვარელი, მომხიბლავი, მიმზიდველი, სასიამოვნო, სანდომიანი, წარმტაცი, თვალწარმტაცი, კოხტა, მოხდენილი, პირმშვენიერი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: καλός, ὡραῖος
 * Gujarati: સુંદર
 * Haitian Creole: bò
 * Hawaiian: nani
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ख़ूबसूरत,, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: scheen
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: oma
 * Ilocano: napintas
 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Ingrian: käppiä, see Thesaurus:käppiä
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: álainn, spéiriúil, dathúil, galánta
 * Isan:
 * Istriot: biel, biela
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Jingpho: tsawm
 * Kabuverdianu: bunitu, benite
 * Kalmyk: сәәхн
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: malagu
 * Kazakh: әдемі, әсем, сұлу
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kunigami: 清ーらせん
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:, , , , , , , , , ,
 * Laboya: jorro
 * Ladino: ermozo, ermoza
 * Lao: ງາມ, ງ້ອມ, ຈຸບຸ, ຊະແລບ, ທີ່ສວຍງາມ, ກັນລະຍາ, ກັນລະຍານ, ຄ່ອງ
 * Latin:, formosus,
 * Latvian:, daiļš, glīts
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: bel, bèll
 * Low German:, scheun
 * Lü: ᦇᦱᧄ
 * Macedonian: убав, прекрасен
 * Malay:, ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: sabiħ
 * Manchu: ᠰᠠᡳᡴᠠᠨ, ᡥᠣᠴᡳᡴᠣᠨ
 * Manx: aalin, bwaagh, bwoyagh
 * Maori: waiwaiā,, hūmārie, hūmārire, purotu, rerehua, , ātanga, ātaahua
 * Marathi: सुंदर
 * Mazanderani: قشنگ, خجیر
 * Middle English: beautevous, wynsom
 * Mòcheno: schea'
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, , үзэсгэлэнтэй
 * Navajo: nizhóní, nizhóní yeeʼ
 * Norman: bieau, belle
 * Northern Khanty: хурамӑӈ
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Odia: ସୁନ୍ଦର
 * Okinawan: 清らさん, 美らさん
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: ⰾⱑⱂⱏ
 * Glagolitic: лѣпъ, красьнъ
 * Old East Slavic: лѣпъ, красьнъ
 * Old English: fæġer, wlitiġ
 * Old Javanese: bĕcik
 * Old Norse: fagr
 * Old Occitan: bel
 * Pangasinan: malimgas
 * Pashto:, ,
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Dari:, ,
 * Iranian Persian:, , , خوش‌تیپ
 * Plautdietsch: schmock, scheen
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , , ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua:, şumag, k'acha
 * Romagnol: bël
 * Romani: śukar
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: bel, bella, bi, biala
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Sardinian: bedhu, bedha, bellu, bella
 * Scots: bonny
 * Scottish Gaelic: àlainn, bòidheach, brèagha, fèilleil, grinn, maiseach, rìomhach, sgèimheach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ле̑п, лије̑п, лип
 * Roman:, , lip
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Sidamo: xuʼma
 * Sinhalese:, සුන්දර
 * Slovak: krásny, pekný
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rědny
 * Southern Thai:
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Sranan Tongo: moi
 * Sudovian: grazi, skaista
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:, хушрӯ, қашанг
 * Talysh: ğəşəng, reçin, rəvoşin, xos, cıvon
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: матур, гүзәл
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tocharian B: kartse
 * Tokunoshima: 清らさい
 * Tswana: -ntle
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: görmegeý, gözel, gelşikli
 * Tutong: lawa'
 * Ukrainian: вродли́вий,, , хоро́ший, фа́йний,
 * Urdu: خُوبْصُورَت, سُنْدَر, حَسِین, پْیارا, قَشَن٘گ, زیبا
 * Uyghur: گۈزەل
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: beło, beła
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Coast Bajau: lawa'
 * West Frisian: moai, kreas
 * Yiddish: שיין
 * Zhuang: baenzsau, gacae, giengh


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 靚, 好天
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: álainn, aoibhinn, galánta, breá
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خۆش,
 * Limburgish:
 * Macedonian: убаво
 * Malay:
 * Maori: paruhi
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: pekný, krásny
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ఆహ్లాదకరమైన
 * Ukrainian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Macedonian: убав
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, enestående
 * Nynorsk: nydeleg, eneståande
 * Slovak: krásny
 * Ukrainian:, прекра́сний


 * German:
 * Malay:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: убав
 * Malay:

Noun

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