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Beautiful vs Awesome - What's the difference?

beautiful | awesome |

As adjectives the difference between beautiful and awesome

is that beautiful is attractive and possessing charm while awesome is causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.

As a noun awesome is

the quality, state, or essence of being awesome or cool; awesomeness.

beautiful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attractive and possessing charm.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
  • Well executed.
  • (as a pro-sentence ) How beautiful that is!
  • (referring to an athlete catching a ball)
  • (as a pro-sentence; ironic ) How unfortunate that is!
  • Usage notes

    The comparatives beautifuler' and '''beautifuller''', and the superlatives '''beautifulest''' and ' beautifullest have also occasionally been used, but are considered dated or obsolete.

    Synonyms

    * (possessing charm and attractive) beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang) * (of the weather) clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny * (well executed) excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful * great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as'' bloody, damned ''or just) * See also

    Antonyms

    * (possessing charm and attractive) grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful * (of the weather) bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet * (well executed) average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak

    Derived terms

    * beautiful armadillo * beautiful game * beautiful people * beautifully * beautifulness

    awesome

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
  • The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight .
    The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
  • (colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
  • That was awesome !
    Awesome, dude!

    Usage notes

    The oldest meaning of "awesome" is "something which inspires awe", but the word is also a common slang expression in English, originally from America. As the original meaning of awesome'' has become somewhat antiquated in general use, the term ''awe-inspiring is now generally used for the same meaning.

    Synonyms

    * (causing awe or terror) see * (excellent) excellent, super, phenomenal, fantastic, terrific; wicked, bang-up, cool, sweet (slang or informal); chur, cher (New Zealand)

    Derived terms

    * awesomely * awesomeness * awesomest

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality, state, or essence of being or cool; awesomeness.
  • * 2011 , Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart , Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ISBN 9781609284619, page 6:
  • Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome . They made her legs look longer and leaner.
  • * 2011 , Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything , St. Martin's Press (2011), ISBN 9780312643744, page 189:
  • Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
  • * 2013 , Carrie Jones, Captivate , Bloomsbury (2010), ISBN 9781599903422, page 150:
  • “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome .”
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  • Synonyms

    * awesome sauce (Internet slang)

    Antonyms

    * fail (slang), weaksauce (slang)