Thesaurus:beautiful
THESAURUS | beautiful |
English
Synonyms
- attractive [WS]
- beauteous
- beautiful
- beautimous (Southern US)
- bona vardering (Polari)
- bonnie (Scottish, Geordie)
- breathtaking
- captivating
- comely
- cute
- esculent (idiomatic)
- exquisite
- fair
- fetching
- good-looking
- good enough to eat (idiomatic)
- handsome
- knockout
- lovely
- lovesome
- lustrious
- nice
- nice-looking
- physically attractive
- pretty
- prettiful
- pulchritudinous
- shapely
- sightly
- stunning
- swanlike (figurative)
- well-favoured
- winsome
Hyponyms
- attractive [WS]
- gorgeous
- hot [WS]
- ravishing
- sexy [WS]
- —
- Junoesque
- Venuslike
- —
- Adonic
Antonyms
- disgusting
- homely
- plain
- ugly [WS]
See also
- Thesaurus:beauty
- Thesaurus:beautiful man
- Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- Thesaurus:sexy
- Thesaurus:shining
Further reading
- “845. beauty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “beautiful” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.