pulchritudinous

Definition of pulchritudinousnext

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Adjective
  • Mercury, the messenger, is embracing beauteous Venus in your 10th House of Drive.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There’s beauteous simplicity to a pot of ordinary grains made with the most minimal of tools.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Upper trims load up the sedan with even more desirable features, but the base model has plenty to offer.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The moves are intended to make OpenAI’s products more desirable to enterprise and coding customers, where Anthropic has had more success.
    John Kell, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • There was also seductive tenderness in the work’s bluesy episodes.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The airy melted Hokkaido potato dish with chawanmushi, lightly pickled spring onion, and Cristal caviar was seductive and unexpected.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • One is beautiful and famous the world over; the other is even more beautiful yet content not to have to put up with all the fuss and attention.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2026
  • What happens when you are forced to choose between a beautiful, vulnerable tradition and your own self-actualization?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Cooking the broccoli just until soft enough to blend slightly while still keeping texture, then letting the cheese melt in gradually for that smooth, luscious finish.
    Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2026
  • For the final touches, Priyanka styled her luscious locks down and sleek with a side part, and glammed up with glowy makeup.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Individual plants live for 300 years with attractive, but sterile, red flower spikes.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Both have other attractive abilities.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Dark, sexy, thrillingly complicated—across the last 60 years, Charlotte Rampling’s oeuvre has been unparalleled, and now, at the age of 80, the Oscar nominee is still hard at work.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2026
  • As the cover star of Playboy’s first-ever issue circa 1953, Monroe was known to pose in the nude and in sexy lingerie for other photoshoots.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Not immaterially, its bright-orange color looks absolutely gorgeous against the rest of the sandwich.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The film ends with the show itself, which unfurls at the Park Avenue Armory, a gorgeous red-brick 19th-century Upper East Side castle that, inside, resembles nothing so much as the world’s most industrial middle-school gymnasium.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Mar. 2026
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“Pulchritudinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulchritudinous. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.

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