Antonyms for cute

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kyoot

Phonetic Transcription : kyut

Definition of cute

Origin : 1731, "clever," shortening of acute; informal sense of "pretty" is 1834, American English student slang. Related: Cuteness.

adj perky, attractive

Example sentences :

"It's a kind of cute and old-fashioned house inside," he observed.
Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Paddy is mighty 'cute, and knows when he has a man to deal with.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

I want to have from yourself what like the people are,—are they as hard-working, are they as 'cute as our own?
Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

She was a small, cute girl with a rainbow of laughter wreathed about her.
Extract from : « Rescue Squad » by Thomas J. O'Hara

The child was cute enough to have found that out for herself.
Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome

At last, says the Pope,—the blessed man, only think how 'cute it was ov him!
Extract from : « Stories of Comedy » by Various

Now, father was too cute a Yankee not to take advantage of the mob.
Extract from : « The Blunders of a Bashful Man » by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

When I got fed up on a bunch of simpering women and their, 'ain't he cute?'
Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney

Yet for a couple of weeks there he was no more'n a kitten, and just as cute and playful.
Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford

It was one of Mr. Robert's cute little ideas, you might know.
Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford

Synonyms for cute

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