Entry Word: beauty

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the qualities in a person or thing that as a whole give pleasure to the senses <her beauty was enough to take your breath away>

Synonyms attractiveness, beauteousness, comeliness, cuteness, fairness, gorgeousness, handsomeness, looks, loveliness, prettiness

Related Words allure, appeal, attraction, glamour (also glamor); charm, elegance, exquisiteness, flawlessness, gloriousness, perfection, radiance, resplendence; desirability, desirableness

Near Antonyms dreadfulness, foulness, ghastliness, grotesqueness, hideousness, loathsomeness, nastiness, offensiveness, repellency, repulsiveness, unattractiveness; blemish, flaw, imperfection

Antonyms homeliness, plainness, ugliness, unsightliness

2 a lovely woman <she was quite a beauty in her younger days>

Synonyms eyeful, goddess, knockout, stunner

Related Words belle, charmer, honey

Near Antonyms hag, horror, witch

3 something very good of its kind <that fish is a beauty> — see jim-dandy