Thesaurus:beauty

Thesaurus

beauty

English

Noun

Sense: property of being pleasing to the eye

Detail: The property, quality, or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine, or good looking.

Synonyms

• attractiveness
• beautifulness
• beauty
• comeliness
• good-lookingness
• gorgeousness
• loveliness
• prettiness
• pulchritude

Antonyms

• ugliness    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• guise    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• beautiful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• beautiful man    [⇒ thesaurus]
• beautiful woman    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification

  Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers

  II. Personal Affections

  2. Discriminative Affections

  “845. beauty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “beauty” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.