The meaning of BEAUTIFUL is having qualities of beauty : exciting aesthetic pleasure.

The adjective beautiful describes a thing that is pleasing to the senses. A field of wildflowers, a colorful sunset, and an abstract sculpture could all be considered beautiful.

Every individual entity is beautiful, perhaps - but that leaves ugliness in plenty to be transformed or salvaged.

If you say that someone is beautiful, you are implying that they are nicer to look at than if you said they were attractive, good-looking, handsome, or pretty. If you say that someone is gorgeous or stunning, you mean that they are extremely nice to look at.

Some common synonyms of beautiful are comely, fair, handsome, lovely, and pretty. While all these words mean "exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure," beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses.

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Definition of beautiful adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you describe something as beautiful, you mean that it is very attractive or pleasing. New England is beautiful. It was a beautiful morning. He has beautiful manners.

1. comely, seemly, attractive, fair, beauteous. Beautiful, handsome, lovely, pretty refer to a pleasing appearance.