beautifully

adverb

beau·​ti·​ful·​ly ˈbyü-ti-f(ə-)lē 

1

: in a beautiful manner : in a way that excites aesthetic pleasure

beautifully decorated mansions

As one of the oldest planned cities in the country, Savannah is known for compact, walkable streets and beautifully landscaped historic squares.

—Lisa Chamberlain

2

: in a highly effective or excellent manner

This sort of diagram … beautifully illustrates the genetic connections between organisms as disparate as a cheetah and an eelworm.

—Anthony Doerr

Examples of beautifully in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Arsenal paid for those small fractions because from then on, PSG ground the tie down beautifully. —Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025

Georgia Louise’s lessons for aging beautifully The one thing that keeps us youthful in life is collagen. —Glamour, 30 Apr. 2025

The kind of thinking that built empires and assembly lines—that beautifully predictable, step-by-step, linear logic—is starting to look less like a superpower and more like running Windows 95 in a world demanding quantum leaps. —Lee Salisbury, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025

Warfare, beautifully crafted, tells the harrowing story of the men’s rescue in real time. —Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1