beauty

Language: en

🇬🇧 /ˈbjuːti/ 🇺🇸 /ˈbjuːtiː/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.; A person or thing that is beautiful, especially a woman.; A particularly good or outstanding example of something.; The quality of being pleasing or attractive to the mind or senses; excellence of a high order.; A particularly pleasing or satisfying feature or aspect of something.; Beauty treatments or products collectively; the beauty industry.; In physics, a quantum flavor associated with the bottom quark.; An attractive or remarkable specimen of its kind, often used colloquially or ironically.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable / uncountable Plural: beauties

Collocations

beauty is in the eye of the beholderbeauty contestbeauty salonbeauty queenbeauty sleepinner beautynatural beautybeauty spot

Derivatives

beautifulbeautifullybeautifybeautificationbeauteousbeautician

Synonyms

lovelinessattractivenesselegancegracesplendorcomeliness

Antonyms

uglinesshideousness

Commonly confused

beautiful
EN: 'beauty' is a noun (the quality or a beautiful person); 'beautiful' is the adjective form.
bounty
EN: 'bounty' means abundance or a reward; 'beauty' refers to aesthetic appeal.

Spelling tips

EN: The plural is 'beauties' (change 'y' to 'i' + 'es'). Note that the related adjective 'beauteous' retains the 'e' before the suffix.

💬 Examples

  1. The beauty of the sunset left everyone speechless.

  2. She was considered a great beauty in her youth.

  3. That last goal was a real beauty.

  4. The beauty of the music moved her to tears.

  5. The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.

  6. She works in beauty and cosmetics.

  7. The beauty quantum number is conserved in strong interactions.

  8. He showed me a beauty of a fish he caught that morning.