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 definition: having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind.. See examples of BEAUTIFUL used in a sentence.

(Definition of beautiful from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

A beautiful person is very attractive to look at. She was a very beautiful woman.

The adjective beautiful describes a thing that is pleasing to the senses. A field of wildflowers, a colorful sunset, and an abstract sculpture could all be considered beautiful.

If you say that someone is beautiful, you are implying that they are nicer to look at than if you said they were attractive, good-looking, handsome, or pretty. If you say that someone is gorgeous or stunning, you mean that they are extremely nice to look at.

beau•ti•ful (byo̅o̅′ tə fəl), adj. having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech. excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef. wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying. n. the concept of beauty ...

Definition of beautiful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Beautiful definition: Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.

BEAUTIFUL meaning: 1 : having beauty: such as; 2 : very attractive in a physical way