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Beautiful is an adjective used to describe things as possessing beauty.

Beautiful may also refer to:

In music:

• Beautiful (David Tao album), a 2006 album by David Tao
• beautiful., a 2001 album by Fantastic Plastic Machine
• Beautiful (Meg album), a 2009 album by Meg
• "Beautiful" (10 Years song), a song by 10 Years from their 2008 album Division
• "Beautiful" (Ailyn song), a song by Ailyn, from her 2004 album Ya Nada Queda
• "Beautiful" (Akon song), a song by Akon, from his 2008 album Freedom
• "Beautiful" (Athlete song), a song by Athlete, from their 2003 debut album Vehicles and Animals
• "Beautiful", a song by Audio Adrenaline from their 2001 album Lift
• "Beautiful", a 2004 song by Bethany Dillon on her self-titled album, Bethany Dillon
• "Beautiful" (Social Code song), a 2004 song by Social Code
• "Beautiful" (Bombay Rockers song), a 2007 single by Bombay Rockers
• "Beautiful" (Christina Aguilera song), a song written and produced by Linda Perry, and released by Christina Aguilera on her 2002 album Stripped
• "Beautiful", a 1999 song by American rock band Creed on the album Human Clay
• "Beautiful", a song from Don Omar from the compilation album Mas Flow: Los Benjamins
• "Beautiful" (Disco Montego song), a 2002 single by Disco Montego featuring Katie Underwood, from the album Disco Montego
• "Beautiful" (Eminem song), a song from Eminem's 2009 album Relapse
• Beautiful (Fish Leong album), 2003 album
• "Beautiful", a song by HIM from their 2001 album Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
• "Beautiful" (Mai Kuraki song), a 2009 single by Mai Kuraki
• "Beautiful" (Mandalay song), a song by Mandalay, from their 1998 album Empathy
• "Beautiful" (Moby song), a song by Moby, from his 2005 album Hotel
• "Beautiful", a song by Paul Simon from his 2006 album Surprise
• "Beautiful", a 2001 song by Sevendust from their album Animosity
• "Beautiful", a song by the Smashing Pumpkins, from their 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• "Beautiful" (Snoop Dogg song), a song by Snoop Dogg, from his 2002 album Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
• "Beautiful" (Taylor Dayne song), 2007 single
• "Beautiful", a song by Verona (band), from the "Summer Consequence" album.
• Beautiful, a song by Marillion from their 1995 album Afraid of Sunlight

In film:

• Beautiful (2000 film), an American film starring Minnie Driver and Kathleen Turner
• Beautiful (2008 film), a South Korean film
• Beautiful (2008 Australian film), a 2008 film starring Deborra-Lee Furness and Aaron Jeffery

Other uses:

• A fragrance by Estee Lauder.

See also

• Beauty (disambiguation)

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology

(1520) From beauty + Germanic -ful (“‘full of’”). Displaced earlier English sheen "beautiful" (from Middle English schene "beautiful", from Old English scīene "beautiful"), Middle English wliti "beautiful", from Old English wlitiġ "beautiful").

Pronunciation

• enPR: byo͞oʹtĭ-fəl, IPA: /ˈbjuːtɪfəl/, SAMPA: /"bju:tIf@l/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Hyphenation: beau‧ti‧ful

Adjective

beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)

1. possessing charm and attractive

   Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.

2. (of the weather) pleasant; clear.
3. well executed

   The skater performed a beautiful axel.

4. (as a pro-sentence) How beautiful that is!

   Beautiful! What a catch! (referring to an athlete catching a ball)

5. (as a pro-sentence; ironic) How unfortunate that is!

   Beautiful! I dropped the soup on the floor!

Synonyms

• (possessing charm and attractive): attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang)
• (of the weather): clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny
• (well executed): excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful
• (ironic: how unfortunate): great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)
• See also Wikisaurus:beautiful

Antonyms

• (possessing charm and attractive): grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly
• (of the weather): bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet
• (well executed): average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak

Derived terms

• beautiful armadillo
• beautiful game
• beautiful people
• beautifully
• beautifulness

Related terms

• beauty
  • See also Wikisaurus:beautiful woman

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