Beautiful
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English
Etymology
From French beauté, beauty, + Germanic -ful, full of
Adjective
beautiful
Synonyms
Antonyms
Interjection
Term meaning "What a mess!" or "What a screw-up!"
Example:
- Beautiful! I dropped the soup on the floor!
Usage Note: Beautiful can also be exclaimed by someone to mean "What a thing of beauty!" (Example: Beautiful! What a catch! [referring to an athlete catching a ball]). In this usage, beautiful would generally be labeled an adjective, not an interjection.
Translations
- Arabic: جميل
- Breton: brav, kaer
- Dutch: mooi
- Esperanto: bela
- Finnish: kaunis
- French: beau m, belle f
- Frisian: moai, kreas
- German: schön
- Indonesian: indah, cantik, ayu, molek, cakep
- Italian: bello
- Japanese: 美しい (うつくしい, utsukushii), 綺麗 (きれい, kirei), 素敵 (すてき, suteki)
- Latin: pulcher, formosus m, bellus m
- Polish: piękny
- Portuguese: bonito m, bonita f
- Romanica: bello m, bella f
- Russian: красивый
- Spanish: hermoso m, hermosa f, bello, lindo, chico
- Swedish: vacker
