beauty

noun

(uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

Someone who is beautiful.

(in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

An excellent or egregious example of something.

(with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

(archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

(particle physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

verb

(obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.

adjective

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.

Roots

bellusbeaut- · Latin · beautiful, fine

Synonyms for beauty

beautn pulchrituden lovelinessn handsomenessn bellen stunnern lookern attractivenessn

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Where does beauty come from?

The word beauty breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root beaut-, from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.