Beautiful vs Beautifulest - What's the difference?
beautiful | beautifulest |
Attractive and possessing charm.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
(as a pro-sentence ) How beautiful that is!
(as a pro-sentence; ironic ) How unfortunate that is!
(dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
* 1857 , Benjamin Franklin Tefft, The shoulder-knot; or, Sketches of the three-fold life of man: A story of the seventeenth century , Harper &d Brothers, p. 175-6:
* 1922 , Charles N. Lurie, How to say it: helpful hints on English , G.P. Putnam's sons, p. 23:
* 1970 , Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm and Paul Dennis Sporer, Half a Century , Anza Publishing, p. 34:
As adjectives the difference between beautiful and beautifulest
is that beautiful is attractive and possessing charm while beautifulest is most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.beautiful
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(en adjective)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.’}}
- (referring to an athlete catching a ball)
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 alsoAntonyms
* (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, weakDerived terms
* beautiful armadillo * beautiful game * beautiful people * beautifully * beautifulnessbeautifulest
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(-)- ...and thy dear Baby Charles, as chance had ordered, had a fair sight of the beautifulest of princesses, Henrietta Maria, sister to the king...
- "I saw the beautifulest dress displayed in the window; the color was one of the delicatest blues I ever saw."
- They were the beautifulest boys I ever laid eyes on, and uncle sot great store by them.