Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Beautiful, especially to the sight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Possessing beauty; sensuously beautiful.
- Synonyms Handsome, Pretty, etc. See
beautiful .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mostly poetic Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.
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- adjective archaic
beautiful
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight
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Examples
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They lay in beauteous sleep upon the bosom of the ocean, in colouring half intense, half languid, like the tints of the dog-rose and wild violet.
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In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast.
III.9 1826
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The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
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The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
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It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the usual average.
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It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the usual average.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872
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Saying "beauteous" after watching our Russian movie.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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For this reason, seasoned filmgoers will likely be neither as astonished by its elliptical narrative structure and montage nor as stunned by the beauteous unfolding of sensory and conceptual permutations representing cosmological reality as they might have been three-to-four decades ago.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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For this reason, seasoned filmgoers will likely be neither as astonished by its elliptical narrative structure and montage nor as stunned by the beauteous unfolding of sensory and conceptual permutations representing cosmological reality as they might have been three-to-four decades ago.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011
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Roger is home with the beauteous young Jane, who adoringly presents him with copies of his memoir, Sterling's Gold.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
jeffazi commented on the word beauteous
beautiful, especially to the sight (poetic).
October 31, 2007
Jubjub commented on the word beauteous
This word is absolutely horrible. Or should I say horrideous?
November 14, 2009
digitizdat commented on the word beauteous
Arthur Rimbaud liked this word so much that he used it in the title of one of his poems, Being Beauteous. The title was actually in English while the rest of the poem was composed in French.
February 3, 2025