Beauty vs Pulchritudinous - What's the difference?
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The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1988', "… '''beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -''Second Son , Robert Ferro
Someone who is beautiful.
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
An excellent or egregious example of something.
(with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius
(particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
* Jeremy Taylor
(Canada) Of high quality, well done.
(literary) Having great physical beauty.
* 1994, , The Ships of Earth [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0812532635&id=7gfXxsbBlMUC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=0rRZFt_qlJjfSJjGn3wFt2fS2d4]:
* 1966, , The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0312863551&id=BekUbUYszIEC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=ZvuCF54ZL1_TGu3t7yhCfG16Vac]:
* 1998, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Flamingo Fedora [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0812565355&id=lU8wPXJ3OiMC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=BBtkRVAYY69odrH7zFc7qi0qwus]:
As a noun beauty
is the property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.As an interjection beauty
is thanks! Cool.As an adverb beauty
is of high quality, well done.As an adjective pulchritudinous is
having great physical beauty.beauty
English
(wikipedia beauty)Noun
- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty .
- That phrasing is a beauty .
- What a goal, what a beauty .
- ''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
- She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.Synonyms
* gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness * (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker * (something pleasing) gem, jewel * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* repulsiveness, homeliness, uglinessDerived terms
* age before beauty * bathing beauty * beaut * beauteous * beautician * beautifiable * beautification * beautifier * beautiful * beautifully * beautifulness * beautify * beautiless * beauty consultant * beauty contest * beauty is in the eye of the beholder * beauty is only skin deep * beauty mark * beauty pageant * beauty parlor * beauty quark * beauty salon * beauty school * beauty shop * beauty sleep * beauty spot * beauty strip * beautyberry * beautybush * beautydom * beautyhood * beautyship * California beauty * Camberwell beauty * line of beauty * meadow beauty * painted beauty * raw beauty * Rome beauty * Rutland beauty * Sleeping Beauty * spring beautySee also
* usefulnessAdverb
(en adverb)- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But Shedemei had long since grown out of her adolescent jealousy of pulchritudinous girls.
- “The first example in each series,” Mike offered, “would be, on the basis of my associational analyses of such data, of such pulchritudinous value as to please any healthy, mature human male.”
- “I had standing instructions to let any pulchritudinous females into Mr. Cooke’s dressing room,” Mike admitted.
- “Pulchritudinous ? He really said that?”
- “No, I said that.”
