Antonyms for beautiful
ˈbyu tə fəlbeau·ti·ful

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.6 / 20 votes

1. beautifuladjective

   Attractive and possessing charm.

   Synonyms:
   perfect, excellent, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, stylish, good, great, marvelous

2. beautifuladjective

   pleasant; clear.

   It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.

   Synonyms:
   wonderful, great, stylish, perfect, good, excellent, marvelous, marvellous, exceptional

3. beautifuladjective

   well executed

   The skater performed a beautiful axel.

   Antonyms:
   shoddy, average, poor, bad, mediocre, terrible, substandard, weak

   Synonyms:
   good, stylish, marvellous, exceptional, excellent, marvelous, great, wonderful, perfect

4. beautifuladjective

   (as a pro-sentence) How beautiful that is!

   Beautiful! What a catch! (referring to an athlete catching a ball)

   Synonyms:
   wonderful, good, marvellous, excellent, perfect, marvelous, exceptional, great, stylish

5. beautifuladjective

   (as a pro-sentence; ironic) How unfortunate that is!

   Beautiful! I dropped the soup on the floor!

   Synonyms:
   perfect, good, marvellous, great, stylish, exceptional, wonderful, marvelous, excellent

6. beautifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   ugly, misshapen, repulsive, plain, grotesque, homely, hideous

   Synonyms:
   beauteous, cute, hot, handsome, gorgeous, lovely, attractive, shapely, pretty, nice-looking, fair, good-looking, fit, sheen

7. beautifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   miserable, cloudy, rainy, wet, overcast, dull, bad

   Synonyms:
   pleasant, clear, fine, sunny, nice

8. beautifuladjective

   Synonyms:
   marvellous, great, nice, just, bloody, intensifier, marvelous, damned, wonderful

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 10 votes

1. beautiful

   The definition of beauty, "perfection of form," is a good key to the meaning of beautiful, if we understand "form" in its widest sense. There must also be harmony and unity, and in human beings spiritual loveliness, to constitute an object or a person really beautiful. Thus, we speak of a beautiful landscape, a beautiful poem. But beautiful implies also, in concrete objects, softness of outline and delicacy of mold; it is opposed to all that is hard and rugged, hence we say a beautiful woman, but not a beautiful man. Beautiful has the further limit of not transcending our powers of appreciation. Pretty expresses in a far less degree that which is pleasing to a refined taste in objects comparatively small, slight, and dainty; as, a pretty bonnet; a pretty girl. That is handsome which is not only superficially pleasing, but well and harmoniously proportioned, with usually the added idea that it is made so by art, breeding, or training; as, a handsome horse; a handsome house. Handsome is a term far inferior to beautiful; we may even say a handsome villain. Fair denotes what is bright, smooth, clear, and without blemish; as, a fair face. The word applies wholly to what is superficial; we can say "fair, yet false." In a specific sense, fair has the sense of blond, as opposed to dark or brunette. One who possesses vivacity, wit, good nature, or other pleasing qualities may be attractive without beauty. Comely denotes an aspect that is smooth, genial, and wholesome, with a certain fulness of contour and pleasing symmetry, tho falling short of the beautiful; as, a comely matron. That is picturesque which would make a striking picture.

   Antonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

   Synonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Preposition:
   Beautiful to the eye; beautiful in appearance, in spirit; "beautiful for situation," Ps. xlviii, 2; beautiful of aspect, of its kind.

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.6 / 7 votes

1. beautifuladjective

   delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

   "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"

   Antonyms:
   repulsive, unsightly, monstrous, ugly, ill-favored, hideous, grotesque, unlovely, scrofulous, unpicturesque, ill-favoured, unpleasant, fugly, disfigured, evil-looking

2. beautifuladjective

   (of weather) highly enjoyable

   "what a beautiful day"

   Antonyms:
   ill-favored, hideous, ugly, monstrous, unlovely, fugly, repulsive, grotesque, unsightly, scrofulous, unpleasant, evil-looking, unpicturesque, ill-favoured, disfigured

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beautifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely, hideous, uncomely, inelegant

   Synonyms:
   fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous, elegant, exquisite

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. not pretty

   a nice-looking

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2020  

How to use beautiful in a sentence?

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

2. Latrell Parker:

   Take it as big as you want to make it, as far as you want to go. That's what Nipsey said, i'm all for getting out there creating your own opportunities, creating opportunities for your people. That's what Nipsey was about. It's just beautiful.

3. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Fireflies are free, so beautiful. (Les lucioles sont libres, donc belles.)”

4. Elena Kupriyanova:

   It's very painful that so many people's (lives) were destroyed, that such a beautiful, new town was abandoned. It's hard on the soul.

5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

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