BEAUTIFUL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of beautiful in English

beautiful
adjective
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/ˈbjuː.tɪ.fəl/ us
/ˈbjuː.t̬ə.fəl/
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very attractive:
a beautiful woman
breathtakingly beautiful scenery
She was wearing a beautiful dress.
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a beautiful person, painting, sight, etc.
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very pleasant:
a beautiful piece of music
beautiful weather
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very kind:
You did a beautiful thing in helping those poor children.
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the beautiful game
the beautiful people
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beautiful
adjective
us
/ˈbju·t̬ɪ·fəl/
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having an attractive quality that gives pleasure to those who experience it or think about it:
I thought she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.
The scenery around here is beautiful.
We heard beautiful music every night.
It was a beautiful plan.

beautifully

adverb us
/ˈbju·t̬ɪ·fli, -fə·li/
She sings beautifully.
(Definition of beautiful from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of beautiful

beautiful
This is a very beautiful and useful book.
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He asked whether an architect ought to be granted such wide latitude to 'butcher really beautiful buildings'.
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That some of these products are astonishingly beautiful does not negate the essential naivety of the thinking.
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This is a beautiful example of how languages grammaticalize the notions that are relevant to language users.
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Every individual entity is beautiful, perhaps - but that leaves ugliness in plenty to be transformed or salvaged.
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Therefore, accompanied by their spouses and other ethically challenged luminaries, they settled in a beautiful international site and decided to rewrite their document.
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The voices are beautiful and well suited to the roles.
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An extremely beautiful photographic record of a row of vortices in the case of 8 = 75" is shown in figure 15.
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Wonder at any natural scene that is beautiful.
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It's a very well arranged cemetery with a beautiful array of tombstones.
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Despite the existence of reduplicative compounds, reduplication as a morphological process is nevertheless unproductive (*beautiful-beautiful, *happy-happy).
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The book provides an excellent, detailed insight into the beautiful and intriguing environment that has enabled the microelectronics revolution.
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But why is this more beautiful than the classical elegance of pre-planned harmony.
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The graph in figure 12 shows a beautiful picture of what happens.
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Also, its syntax hides the beautiful self-duality of the structure.
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Translations of beautiful

in Chinese (Traditional)
美麗的，漂亮的, 美好的, 極好的…
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美丽的，漂亮的, 美好的, 极好的…
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hermoso, bello, precioso…
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schön…
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