Definition of BEAUTIFULLY

Examples of beautiful in a Sentence

Located on one of the most beautiful and untouched coastlines in America, this recreational area has much to offer. You can hike on rocky headlands that rise dramatically from the Pacific Ocean, ride horses or bikes along scenic trails, walk along the many beaches, kayak on pristine Tomales Bay, or spy the abundance of native flowers and wildlife, including elephant seals and tule elk. —Tim Fish, Wine Spectator, 15 Nov. 2008
In her biography of Monroe, Churchwell takes to task the relentless mythomania of her admirers and critics, who are equally invested in nurturing the legend of a hapless beautiful woman consumed by her desire for celebrity and love. —Lakshmi Chaudhry, Nation, 27 Aug.-3 Sept. 2007
In the hothouse of today's celebrity monoculture, the result has been the perfection of the kind of profile in which athletes and actors struggle to overcome … absence or presence in their lives of money, fame, sex and drugs. Especially so in the upscale slicks, where these stories of the rich and beautiful emerge so flat and lifeless that no one in them casts a shadow. —Jeff MacGregor, New York Times Book Review, 21 Aug. 2005
You have the most beautiful smile.
The film tells a beautiful story about two young lovers.
Our hotel room had a beautiful view of the ocean.
The sunsets here are absolutely beautiful.
What a beautiful day for a picnic!
This is a beautiful example of early American poetry.

Recent Examples of beautiful from the Web

The venue was carefully chosen for Rodarte’s beautiful and rather magical Paris debut.

— thomas adamson, The Seattle Times, "American brands move to Paris to kick off couture week", 2 July 2017
Even in the most violent and horrifying moments—this is the director of Audition and Ichi the Killer—the movie simply looks beautiful.

— lincoln michel, GQ, "13 Assassins Is the Best and Bloodiest Samurai Movie on Netflix", 1 July 2017
Roper is perhaps the most conventionally beautiful member of the group, with a lovely dazzled look.

— dinitia smith, Daily Intelligencer, "Straight Outta Queens", 30 June 2017
There’s an arresting existential whisper murmuring through the jungle that Gray so richly renders, beautiful and menacing and metaphorical.

— joanna robinson, HWD, "The Best Movies and TV Shows of 2017, So Far", 29 June 2017
For some lucky homeowners, stripping away drywall reveals beautiful brick walls, which impart timeless texture, warmth, and character to a space.

— taysha murtaugh, Country Living, "The Surprising Way You're Ruining Your Exposed Brick Walls", 29 June 2017
Khloe Kardashian, you beautiful, self-sustaining rumor mill!

— laura beck, Cosmopolitan, "Khloe Kardashian Posted a Cryptic Snapchat and Everyone Wants to Know What It Means", 27 June 2017
Lord, take my brokenness and make something beautiful today.

— dan horn, Cincinnati.com, "Abused by a priest, now a champion of the church", 24 June 2017
As the Welsh town of Gwynedd’s Renn prepares for its summer celebration a beautiful young priestess is murdered.

— gege reed, The Courier-Journal, "13 theater & comedy acts June 22-28", 21 June 2017

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Origin and Etymology of beautiful

Middle English bewteful, beautefull, from beaute beauty + -ful, -full ¹-ful

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First Known Use: 15th century

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beautiful Synonyms

Synonym Discussion of beautiful

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

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