Antonyms for beautiful

Grammar : Adj

Spell : byoo-tuh-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbyu tə fəl

Definition of beautiful

Origin : mid-15c., 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.

adj physically attractive

Example sentences :

What is the use of a beautiful face, if one must be shut up in her own apartment for ever?
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

It was a beautiful cameo of Alcibiades, with the quiver and bow of Eros.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

It was motionless as marble; but never had she seen anything so beautiful, and so unearthly.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

Aspasia will tell you I have been a beautiful but idle dreamer all my life.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

That's where our big West is, over that way—isn't it fresh and green and beautiful?
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

We therefore camped for the night, with beautiful feed for the horses.
Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest

To be with those she loved best, and to be driving over the beautiful earth!
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

It was hard to say at which season of the year Overton campus was most beautiful.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

This crystal pallor or a flushed joy—in one of the two she was most beautiful.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

The view from the summit of the hill is commanding and beautiful, but its grape is unique.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

Synonyms for beautiful

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