BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFY, BEAUTY
(also see ATTRACTIVE, GOOD-LOOKING, HANDSOME, etc.)
ADJECTIVES
..725 ► SMICKER beautiful, elegant, fair, handsome → obs.
1000 ► SHEEN beautiful; said of persons, their appearance, etc.
1175 ► LOVESOME beautiful, lovely inspiring love on account of beauty
1240 ► LUSTY beautiful, pleasing in appearance → obs.
1300 ► BRIGHT beautiful, attractive; also, having a fair and rosy complexion → obs.
1300 ► FAIR AND FREE beautiful and noble; used as a conventional complimentary epithet, originally and chiefly for a woman → arch.
1300 ► QUAINT beautiful or handsome in appearance; finely or fashionably dressed; elegant, foppish → obs.
1300 ► QUEME beautiful, pleasing in appearance; fair; neat, tidy → obs.
1314 ► BEL beautiful, fair, fine → obs.
1325 ► BEAU beautiful, fair → obs.
1398 ► FAVOURABLE beautiful, comely → obs.
1500 ► DECOIR → DECORE beautiful, comely → Sc. obs.
1500 ► WALLIE → WALLY → WALY beautiful, fine, excellent, pleasant → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1513 ► BONNY expressing homely beauty, pleasing to the sight; comely → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1513 ► VENUST beautiful, handsome; elegant, graceful; comely in appearance → obs.
1567 ► FEATURED beautiful, comely; well-formed → obs.
1598 ► BEAUTY beautiful; highly pleasing to the sight
1598 ► VENEREAL physically beautiful or attractive → obs.
1641 ► FAIRSOME beautiful → obs.
1661 ► VENERIAL beautiful or attractive like Venus → obs.
1785 ► BEAUTIFUL AS AN ANGEL extremely beautiful
1789 ► FAIR-FARAND beautiful to the eye but noxious, hurtful →Sc.
19C.. ► ANTIOUS beautiful with age; ancient, rare → Eng. dial.
1881 ► SCRUMPTIOUS resplendently beautiful, gorgeous → sl., orig. US
1888 ► JUNOESQUE resembling Juno in stately beauty
1890 ► CATISH → KATISH → KITASH beautiful; fine, elegant, stylish → Amer. dial.
1900 ► DENTY-BONNY beautiful → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► FEATIVE proportionately beautiful → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► VIEWSOME beautiful, comely, handsome, pleasing to the eye → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1912 ► PULCHRITUDINOUS beautiful, graceful, or fine in any way; comely; morally excellent → US
1913 ► SWELLEGANT beautiful, very fine → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► SWELLELEGANT beautiful, very fine → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► SWELLELLEGOUS beautiful, very fine → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1936 ► EASY ON THE EYE beautiful, pleasing to look at; good-looking; esp. of women → UK sl.
1942 ► ALAMONAGORGEOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BEE-YOO-TIFUL → BE-U-TIFUL resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DAZZLING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DEVASTATING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DIVINE resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► ELEGAZAM resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FIT TO KILL resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► JUST TOO KILLING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PERFECTLY KILLING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PUTRID resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► RAVING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► RED-HOT resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► RIPPING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► RIPSNIPTIOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUM resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUMBOTIOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUMDIDLIUMPTOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUMDIFFEROUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUMDOODLE resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUMDUMPISH resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRUMPTEDIDLEOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SENSATIONAL resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SIMPLY KILLING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SIMPLY STUNNING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPANGLORIOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPANKING resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDACEOUS → SPLENDACIOUS → SPLENDATIOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDICULAR resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDICULOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDIDIOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDIDOUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDIDROUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPLENDIFEROUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELLAGAZAM resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELLDIFFEROUS resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELLDOODLE resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► TOO-TOO DIVINE resplendently beautiful; gorgeous → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1951 ► NANI beautiful → Hawaii
1970 ► WAY OUT beautiful, out of the ordinary → US sl. (Bk.)
1990 ► BABELICIOUS very beautiful, very sexy → sl.
1995 ► DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS very beautiful → US sl. (Bk.)
1997 ► AGAINST THE LAW extraordinarily beautiful → US sl.
NOUNS
..888 ► FAIR beauty, fairness, good looks → obs.
1225 ► FAIRLEC beauty, fairness → obs.
1250 ► FAIRHEAD beauty → obs.
1300 ► FAVOUR beauty, comeliness, attractiveness; that which conciliates affection or goodwill → obs. exc. arch.
1320 ► FAIRSHIP beauty, fairness → obs.
1350 ► PULCHRITUDE physical beauty; comeliness
1513 ► DECORE beauty, grace, honour, glory, adornment → obs.
1559 ► VENUSTY beauty, elegance of form → obs.
1587 ► FAIRHOOD beauty → obs.
1590 ► GALAXY a brilliant assemblage or crowd of beautiful women or distinguished persons
1598 ► BEAUTY-MOCK an imitation of beauty → obs.
1621 ► BELLITUDE beauty, fairness
1656 ► DECOR beauty, comeliness, ornament → obs.
1657 ► VENUS beauty, charm → obs.
1658 ► VENUSTATION a making beautiful or handsome → obs.
1685 ► SPRUNKING a beautifying or adorning oneself
1727 ► LUCULENCE beauty, trimness, fineness → obs.
1727 ► VENUSTITY beautifulness → obs.
1727 ► VENUSTNESS beautifulness → obs.
1801 ► BEAU-IDEAL the ideal Beautiful; the Beautiful, or beauty, in its ideal perfection → obs.
1820 ► BEAU-IDEAL the highest conceived or conceivable type of beauty or excellence of any kind; the perfect type or model
1862 ► CALLIMETER a measure of beauty
1882 ► PRETTY-PRETTY something beautiful or attractive; a decorative thing, an ornament
1892 ► KNOCKOUT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl.
1911 ► BONNYNESS beauty → Sc. (Bk.)
1942 ► BABY something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BEAR something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BEAUT OF A LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BIG WOW something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BIRD something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BIRD OF A LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BLINDER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BRICK something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BRICK OF A LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► CLASSY LAYOUT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► CLASSY SETUP something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DANDEROO something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DANDY something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DARB OF A LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DAZZLER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DREAM something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DREAM OF A LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DUCKEROO something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DUCKO LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYE CATCHER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYE FILLER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYEFUL something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYE OPENER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYE SALVE something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYE TREAT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► EYE WIDENER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FETCHER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► HOT LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► HOT SKETCH something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► HOT SPIT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► KAYO LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► KNOCKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► LOOKERINO something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► LULU LOOKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► MEAN SKETCH something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► NEAT SKETCH something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACH something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHAGULU something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHALULU something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHAMAROOT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHAROONEY something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHERINE something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHERINO something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PERTY something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PIP something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PIPPIN something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PRETTY-PRETTY something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PRIZE EXHIBIT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PRIZE PACKAGE something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SLICK ARTICLE something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SOME CLASS something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPANKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPIFFER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPIFFY LAYOUT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SPIFFY SETUP something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► STRIKER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► STUNNER something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWEETHEART something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELL ARTICLE something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELL LAYOUT something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELL MERCHANDISE something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SWELL SETUP something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WHIZ something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WOW something beautiful or attractive → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1968 ► MILLIHELEN the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 ► FUNK something beautiful or attractive → US sl.
1991 ► PHILOCALY love of beauty (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1300 ► SWAN a person of unusual beauty, excellent, purity, or the like
1350 ► LOVESOME a beautiful or lovely person → obs.
1350 ► RUBY a woman of great beauty or worth; a paragon
1381 ► CUPID a beautiful young boy
1390 ► GAY a beautiful or noble lady; one who is loved, a sweetheart → obs.
1400 ► BRIGHT a beautiful or attractive woman → obs.
1413 ► BEAUTY a beautiful woman
1450 ► FAIR a beautiful or beloved woman; one’s sweetheart
1502 ► ANGEL a woman who is considered to be remarkably beautiful, attractive, or appealing
1534 ► BEAUTIFUL a beautiful person; chiefly used as a term of endearment, esp. for a woman
1566 ► GANYMEDE a beautiful or handsome young man
1575 ► SPARK a woman of great beauty, elegance, or wit
1579 ► BELLIBONE a beautiful and excellent woman; one who excels in beauty and goodness → obs.
1579 ► VENUS a beautiful or attractive woman
1606 ► JUNO a woman of stately beauty; a woman resembling the goddess Juno in qualities ascribed to her
1608 ► BEAUTY-MOCK a woman whose beauty is not natural; a sham beauty → obs.
1621 ► VENERILLA a beautiful, small woman; a little Venus
18C.. ► QUEEN a beautiful woman; a pretty young woman → US sl.
1725 ► FAIR ROEBUCK a woman in the bloom of her beauty → sl.
1745 ► HOURI a voluptuously beautiful woman
1781 ► BEAUTY AND THE BEAST a beautiful woman and a man considered to be less attractive forming an ill-matched couple
1815 ► PICTURE a beautiful or attractive person
1823 ► SUNFLOWER a person of resplendent beauty
1825 ► BARNYARD BEAUTY a rustic beauty; a buxom, fresh-coloured girl, who appears handsome in the eyes of the vulgar → Sc.
1833 ► BEAU a beautiful woman → US sl.
1842 ► BRIGHT YOUNG THING a young person regarded as beautiful, talented, clever, or energetic
1861 ► PHILOCALIST a lover of beauty
1862 ► BEAUT a beautiful person; one possessing physical beauty, usually of a girl or woman → sl.
1866 ► BUTE a beautiful person or thing → sl.
1868 ► PANTHERESS a beautiful but fierce or cruel woman
1870 ► TRICK a beautiful woman → US Civil War usage
1881 ► AESTHETE a person who professes a special appreciation of what is beautiful, and endeavours to carry his ideas of beauty into practical manifestation
1881 ► MOON-FACE a beautiful woman → Oriental usage (Bk.)
1892 ► KNOCKOUT a beautiful or attractive person → Amer. sl.
20C.. ► BONSA → BONSER → BONSTER → BONZA → BONZER → BONZOR a beautiful woman; an admirable person → Aust. sl.
E20.. ► RAVEN BEAUTY a beautiful Black woman → US sl.
1900 ► BONZARINA → BONZERINA a notably beautiful woman → Aust. sl.
1908 ► VIRE a great beauty; a belle; an outstanding person, animal, or thing → Sc.
1909 ► NO-BEYOND JAMMER a beautiful woman → sl.
1920 ► SILVER PHEASANT a beautiful upper-class or society woman → sl.
1929 ► BEARCAT a beautiful, spirited, or passionate girl or young woman → Amer. sl.
1934 ► EYEFUL a strikingly beautiful woman → sl.
1941 ► CAKE a beautiful girl or young woman → African-American sl.
1942 ► PEACHERINE a beautiful or attractive person → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PEACHERINO a beautiful or attractive person → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PIP a beautiful or attractive person → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PIPPIN a beautiful or attractive person → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► RAVING BEAUTY a beauty worth raving about → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1949 ► GLAMOURLOVELY a beautiful, buxom girl
1956 ► GORGEOUS GUSSIE a beautiful and glamorous young woman → sl.
1965 ► AESTHETICIAN a person who administers beauty treatments; a beautician
1969 ► HAMMER a beautiful girl; a woman → African-American sl.
1970 ► FUNK a beautiful or attractive person → US sl.
1981 ► CHICKIE POO a beautiful young girl → US sl.
1992 ► HECTIC GNARLER a beautiful girl → surfers’ sl. (Bk.)
1997 ► GAWZER a beautiful girl or young woman → Irish sl. (Bk.)
2001 ► GLAMAZON a beautiful, well-muscled woman → sl.
VERBS
1225 ► FAIR to make beautiful or attractive; to decorate, to adorn, to embellish → obs.
1340 ► EMBELISE to beautify; to embellish → obs.
1340 ► FAIR to become or grow beautiful; too appear attractive → obs.
1387 ► UNHIGHT to deprive of beauty or grace → obs.
1390 ► QUAINTISE to beautify, to adorn, to dress finely → obs.
1398 ► BEAUTY to beautify, to adorn, to deck; to render beautiful → arch.
1483 ► QUAINT to make beautiful or fine; to adorn → obs.
1530 ► DECORATE to beautify; to adorn, to embellish; to grace, to honour → obs.
1540 ► BELLIFY to beautify; to embellish → obs.
1555 ► HANDSOME to beautify, to adorn; to make seemly or becoming → obs.
1557 ► FASHION to beautify; to make good-looking → obs.
1592 ► ILLUSTRATE to beautify; to adorn; to make lustrous, luminous, or bright → obs.
1610 ► DEBELLISH to rob of beauty; to mar the beauty of, to disfigure → obs.
1653 ► DEVENUSTATE to deprive of beauty or grace; to disfigure, to deform → obs.
1656 ► VENUSTATE to make beautiful, fair, or sightly → obs.
1876 ► SALLIT to beautify, to lay out for display → Eng. dial.
1897 ► LOVELIFY to make lovely; to beautify
1937 ► GLAM UP to beautify → sl.
1966 ► PANSY UP to beautify the person
1970 ► STICK to be well endowed with physical beauty → US sl. (Bk.)