BEAUTIFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beautiful mean? 

• BEAUTIFUL (adjective)
  The adjective BEAUTIFUL has 2 senses:

1. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

2. (of weather) highly enjoyable

  Familiarity information: BEAUTIFUL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAUTIFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

Context example:

a beautiful party

Similar:

gorgeous (dazzlingly beautiful)

stunning (strikingly beautiful or attractive)

scenic (used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery)

ravishing (stunningly beautiful)

pulchritudinous (used of persons only; having great physical beauty)

pretty-pretty (ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty)

pretty (pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing)

picturesque (suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture)

lovely (appealing to the emotions as well as the eye)

glorious; resplendent; splendid; splendiferous (having great beauty and splendor)

better-looking; fine-looking; good-looking; handsome; well-favored; well-favoured (pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion)

exquisite (of extreme beauty)

dishy ((informal British) sexually attractive)

bonnie; bonny; comely; fair; sightly (very pleasing to the eye)

beauteous ((poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight)

Also:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)

graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)

Attribute:

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

Antonym:

ugly (displeasing to the senses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of weather) highly enjoyable

Context example:

what a beautiful day

Similar:

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

 Context examples 

As I have said, in the masculine sense his was a beautiful face.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open and look love, and the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss—and man is weak.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She is a sunbeam in my house—sweet, loving, beautiful, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m afraid it has spoilt your beautiful bust, for it passed right through the head and flattened itself on the wall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Those two beautiful sonnets that you transmuted into the cow that was accounted the worst milker in the township.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I see her, with her modest, orderly, placid manner, and I hear her beautiful calm voice, as I write these words.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A truly striking result released in the Nature papers is the beautiful new imagery of Jupiter’s poles captured by Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

Such orientations reveal a galaxy’s flowing arms and bright core in beautiful detail, but make it difficult to get any sense of a three-dimensional shape.

(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)