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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEAU'TIFUL, a. bu'tiful. [beauty and full.]
1. Elegant in form, fair,having the form that pleases the eye. It expresses more than handsome.
A beautiful woman is one of the most attractive objects in all nature's works.
A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.
2. Having the qualities which constitute beauty, or that which pleases the senses other than the sight; as a beautiful sound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party" [ant: ugly]
2: (of weather) highly enjoyable; "what a beautiful day"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. having qualities of beauty ; exciting aesthetic pleasure 2. generally pleasing ; excellent • beautifully adverb • beautifulness noun Synonyms: beautiful, lovely, handsome, pretty, comely, fair mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses <beautiful mountain scenery>. lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite <a lovely melody>. handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance <a handsome Georgian mansion>. pretty often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness <a painter of conventionally pretty scenes>. comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to <the comely grace of a dancer>. fair suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness <fair of face>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 delighting the aesthetic senses (a beautiful voice). 2 pleasant, enjoyable (had a beautiful time). 3 excellent (a beautiful specimen). Derivatives: beautifully adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Beautiful Beau"ti*ful, a. Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. --Lord Kames. Syn: Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; pretty; delightful. See Fine. -- Beau"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Beau"ti*ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A beautiful person is very attractive to look at. She was a very beautiful woman... To me he is the most beautiful child in the world. ? ugly ADJ 2. If you describe something as beautiful, you mean that it is very attractive or pleasing. New England is beautiful... It was a beautiful morning... ADJ • beautifully The children behaved beautifully. ...a beautifully clear, sunny day. ADV: usu ADV after v 3. You can describe something that someone does as beautiful when they do it very skilfully. That's a beautiful shot! ADJ • beautifully Arsenal played beautifully. ADV: ADV after v, ADV -ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, beauteous.

Moby Thesaurus

admirable, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, alluring, appealing, art-conscious, artistic, arty, attractive, beauteous, bonny, charming, choice, comely, delightful, elegant, endowed with beauty, excellent, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fine, first-rate, flowerlike, glorious, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, handsome, hear, heavy, incomparable, lovely, magnificent, of consummate art, ornamental, painterly, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, proper, pulchritudinous, radiant, resplendent, smashing, spectacular, splendid, stunning, sublime, superb, superior, tasteful, well done, well-favored, wonderful