Thesaurus:beautiful

Thesaurus

beautiful

English

Adjective

Sense: pleasing to the eye

Synonyms

• attractive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• beauteous
• beautifool
• beautiful
• beautimous (Southern US)
• bona vardering (Polari)
• bonnie (Scottish, Geordie)
• breathtaking
• captivating
• comely
• cute
• esculent (idiomatic)
• exquisite
• fair
• fetching
• fine-looking
• good-looking
• good enough to eat (idiomatic)
• handsome
• knockout
• lovely
• lovesome
• lustrious
• nice
• nice-looking
• physically attractive
• pretty
• prettiful
• pulchritudinous
• shapely    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sheen (archaic, poetic)
• sightly
• stunning
• swanlike (figurative)
• well-favoured
• winsome

Hyponyms

• attractive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gorgeous
• hot    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ravishing
• sexy    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• Junoesque
• Venuslike
•   —
• Adonic

Antonyms

• disgusting
• homely
• plain
• ugly    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:beauty
• Thesaurus:beautiful man
• Thesaurus:beautiful woman
• Thesaurus:sexy
• Thesaurus:shining

Further reading

• “845. beauty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “beautiful” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.