beautiful

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
    aesthetically pleasing
    (of weather) highly enjoyable

Word Origin

beautiful (adj.)
mid-15c., "pleasing to the eye," from beauty + -ful. The beautiful people "the fashionable set" first attested 1964 in (where else?) "Vogue" (it also was the title of a 1941 play by U.S. dramatist William Saroyan). House Beautiful is from "Pilgrim's Progress," where it is a proper name of a place. Related: Beautifully.

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Example

1. These beautiful clear glass like pillars .
2. The red and the yellow rose are both beautiful .
3. Canada has lots of beautiful stamps .
4. Isn 't it a beautiful way to live ?
5. Autumn colors are a beautiful subject to shoot .

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