Beautiful vs Grody - What's the difference?
beautiful | grody |
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!
(US) nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque
* 1982 , (Frank Zappa), (Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch), “” (1982), (Moon Unit Zappa) speaking:
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As adjectives the difference between beautiful and grody
is that beautiful is attractive and possessing charm while grody is (us) nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.beautiful
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Adjective
(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 * beautifulnessgrody
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Alternative forms
* groadyAdjective
(er)- I wouldn't set foot in that bar; the floor looks grody .
- And the lady, like, goes
- “Oh, my god, your toenails are, like, so grody ”
- …
- It’s like grody
- Grody to the max
- …
- Gross!