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| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical attractiveness |
| Synonyms: | allure, artistry, attraction, bloom, charm, class, delicacy, elegance, fairness, fascination, grace, loveliness, polish, pulchritude, refinement, style, symmetry, adorableness, allurement, comeliness, exquisiteness, glamor, good looks, handsomeness, shapeliness, winsomeness |
| Antonyms: | ugliness, homeliness, offensiveness |
| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good-looking person |
| Synonyms: | dream, enchanter, eyeful*, ornament*, vision, Adonis, Apollo, Venus*, beaut, charmer, dreamboat, good-looker, head turner, looker, stunner |
| Antonyms: | dog |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | asset, attraction, benefit, blessing, boon, excellent, feature, importance, merit, value, worth, good thing |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
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| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Apollonian, adonic, aesthetic, artistic, artistical, aspectabund, attractive, beaming, beamy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, becoming, bleached blond, blooming, bonny, bright, cherry, comely, curious, dainty, dapper, dazzling, delicate, eesome, elegant, enchanting, esthetic, fair, featous, fine, fit to be seen, gimp, glossy, glowing, good looking, goodly, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, grand, handsome, harmonious, in full bloom, jaunty, jimp, leggiadrous, lovely, magnificent, natty, neat, not amiss, ornamental, passable, penciled, personable, pictorial, picturesque, pretty, proper, quaint, refined, resplendent, rich, rosy, rosy, sabi, seemly, shapely, shining, showy, sightly, sleek, smart, snod, sparkling, specious, splendid, spotless, spruce, sublime, superb, svelte, symmetrical, tempean, tidy, tight, tretis, tricksy, trim, undefaced, undeformed, unkempt, unspotted, venust, wabi, well, well, well
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-nouns
beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal., [Science of the perception of beauty] callaesthetics., pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned; symmetry [more]; comeliness, fairness; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification., concinnity, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi, style., Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus., peacock, butterfly; flower, flow'ret gay rose, lily, garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel (ornament) [more]; work of art., anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower., pleasurableness [more]., beautifying; landscape gardening; decoration [more]; calisthenics.
-verbs
-adjectives
beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant; attractive (inviting) [more]; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scottish]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical (regular) [more]; harmonious (color) [more]; sightly., fit to be seen, passable, not amiss., goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; jantyk jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy., bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom., brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek., rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious., artistic, artistical; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious., enchanting (pleasure-giving) [more]; becoming (accordant) [more]; ornamental [more]., undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless (perfect) [more].
-phrases
auxilium non leve vultus habet [Ovid]; "beauty born of murmuring sound" [Wordsworth]; "flowers preach to us if we will hear" [C.G. Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Vergil]; "none but the brave deserve the fair" [Dryden]; "thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty" [Byron].
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| Antonyms: | ugliness |
| Main Entry: | doozy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | winner |
| Synonyms: | beauty, humdinger*, killer*, something, lulu, smash hit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eyeful |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spectacular-looking person |
| Synonyms: | beauty, knockout*, lovely, show, spectacle, vision, dazzler, looker, stunner |
| Antonyms: | eyesore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glamour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sophisticated style |
| Synonyms: | allure, animal magnetism, appeal, attraction, beauty, charisma, charm, color, enchantment, fascination, interest, magnetism, prestige, romance, allurement, bewitchment, ravishment, razzle-dazzle, star quality |
| Antonyms: | drab, dullness, ugliness, plainness |
| Main Entry: | grandeur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great importance |
| Synonyms: | beauty, breadth, celebrity, circumstance, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, fame, glory, gravity, greatness, immensity, magnificence, majesty, might, nobility, opulence, pomp, richness, splendor, state, sway, transcendency, vastness, amplitude, augustness, brilliance, expansiveness, fineness, grandiosity, handsomeness, impressiveness, inclusiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, preeminence, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, superbity |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | humdinger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | ace, beauty, champion, crackerjack*, doozy, hit, knockout, pistol*, something, whopper, winner, champ, hot stuff, lulu, pip, smash hit, something else |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paragon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outstanding example |
| Synonyms: | apotheosis, archetype, beau ideal*, beauty, best, champion, crackerjack*, cream*, criterion, epitome, essence, exemplar, gem, ideal, jewel*, love, lovely, model, nonesuch, nonpareil, original, paradigm, pattern, perfection, pick, prototype, quintessence, standard, ultimate, champ, cynosure, peach, sublimation, tops, trump* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loveliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal |
| Synonyms: | beauty, charm, fairness, attractiveness, comeliness |
| Main Entry: | magnificence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | beauty, distinction, elegance, flourish, glitter, glory, grace, greatness, importance, lavishness, majesty, nobility, ostentation, pomp, post*, pulchritude, radiance, richness, show, splendor, style, brilliance, exaltedness, impressiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, nobleness, ostentatiousness, resplendency, spectacularity, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank* |
| Antonyms: | dullness, modesty, simplicity, ugliness, unostentatiousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | charm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enchantment, allure |
| Synonyms: | appeal, attraction, beauty, charisma, fascination, glamour, grace, lure, magic, magnetism, pizzazz*, something*, sorcery, spell, agreeableness, allurement, attractiveness, bewitchery, chemistry, conjuration, delightfulness, desirability, it, star quality, witchery |
| Antonyms: | repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | composition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | structure, arrangement |
| Synonyms: | agreement, architecture, balance, beauty, combination, concord, configuration, consonance, constitution, content, design, distribution, form, formation, harmony, layout, proportion, relation, rhythm, style, symmetry, weave, make-up, placing, spacing |
| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charm, loveliness |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, agility, allure, balance, beauty, breeding, consideration, cultivation, decency, decorum, dexterity, dignity, ease, elegance, etiquette, finesse, finish, form, manners, nimbleness, poise, polish, propriety, refinement, smoothness, style, symmetry, tact, attractiveness, comeliness, gracefulness, lissomeness, lithesomeness, mannerliness, pleasantness, pliancy, shapeliness, suppleness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, ineptness, tactlessness |
| Main Entry: | angel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sweet, kind person |
| Synonyms: | beauty, darling, dear, dream, gem, ideal, jewel, paragon, saint, treasure |
| Antonyms: | demon, devil, fiend |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to attract, interest |
| Synonyms: | allure, attraction, beauty, charm, fascination, attractiveness, charmingness, engagingness, glamor, interestingness, pleasingness, seductiveness |
| Antonyms: | ugliness |
| Main Entry: | finish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating; perfecting |
| Synonyms: | appearance, beauty, burnish, cultivation, culture, elaboration, glaze, grace, grain, lacquer, luster, perfection, polish, refinement, shine, smoothness, surface, texture, veneer, patina |
| Main Entry: | knockout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a striking person or thing |
| Synonyms: | beauty, belle, eyeful*, gem, sensation, smash, success, vision, looker, stunner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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