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Synonyms for beauty
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : byoo-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbyu ti |
Top 10 synonyms for beauty Other synonyms for the word beauty
- Adonis
- adorableness
- allurement
- Apollo
- asset
- attraction
- beaut
- benefit
- blessing
- bloom
- boon
- charmer
- class
- comeliness
- dream
- dreamboat
- enchanter
- excellent
- exquisiteness
- eyeful
- fairness
- fascination
- glamor
- good thing
- good-looker
- handsomeness
- head turner
- looker
- loveliness
- merit
- ornament
- polish
- pulchritude
- shapeliness
- stunner
- style
- symmetry
- value
- Venus
- vision
- winsomeness
- worth
Définition of beauty
Origin :- early 14c., "physical attractiveness," also "goodness, courtesy," from Anglo-French beute, Old French biauté "beauty, seductiveness, beautiful person" (12c., Modern French beauté), earlier beltet, from Vulgar Latin bellitatem (nominative bellitas) "state of being handsome," from Latin bellus "pretty, handsome, charming," in classical Latin used especially of women and children, or ironically or insultingly of men, perhaps from PIE *dw-en-elo-, diminutive of root *deu- "to do, perform, show favor, revere" (see bene-). Famously defined by Stendhal as la promesse de bonheur "the promise of happiness."
- [I]t takes the one hundred men in ten million who understand beauty, which isn't imitation or an improvement on the beautiful as already understood by the common herd, twenty or thirty years to convince the twenty thousand next most sensitive souls after their own that this new beauty is truly beautiful. [Stendhal, "Life of Henry Brulard"]
- Replaced Old English wlite. Concrete meaning "a beautiful woman" is first recorded late 14c. Beauty sleep "sleep before midnight" is attested by 1850. Beauty spot is from 1650s. Beauty parlor is from 1894.
- The sudden death of a young woman a little over a week ago in a down-town "beauty parlor" has served to direct public attention to those institutions and their methods. In this case, it seems, the operator painted on or injected into the patron's facial blemish a 4-per-cent cocaine solution and then applied an electrode, the sponge of which was saturated with carbolized water. ["The Western Druggist," October 1894]
- Beauté du diable (literally "devil's beauty") is used as a French phrase in English from 1825.
- noun physical attractiveness
- noun good-looking person
- noun advantage
- Aspasia said wisely, that the spirit of beauty flows in, only where the proportions are harmonious.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Let young men hear the praise of virtue from the lips of beauty.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- This boasted power of intellect—this giddy triumph of beauty—what do they do for you?
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- "The beauty that lies within has ever a mysterious power," answered Plato.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Now you like it, and you got beauty—only you need more money.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- There is a kind of beauty that seems made to be painted on ivory, and such was hers.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- He studied Hope's beauty with his eyes, he pondered on all her nobleness.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- There is a grandeur in the ruin to be enjoyed, as well as a scene of beauty from its towers.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- The beauty of the Turkish women is still a matter of dispute.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- And did her beauty gladden me, for that one moment, and then die?
- Extract from : « The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Antonyms for beauty
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