Cute vs Playful - What's the difference?
cute | playful |
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Affected]] or contrived to charm; [[mince#Verb, mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (acute).
liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.
funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome.
fun, recreational, not serious.
experimental.
As adjectives the difference between cute and playful
is that cute is possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior while playful is liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.cute
English
(wikipedia)Adjective
(er)- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
- Emma is so damn cute .
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
- Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
Derived terms
* cuteness * cutely * cutesy * cutie * cute as a button * cute hoorplayful
English
Alternative forms
* playfull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- Actually, we are pretty playful in our romantic life.
- John is a playful fellow.
- A party hat is a playful conical hat people wear at parties.
- A brainteaser is a playful puzzle posed as a test of intelligence.
- He was a rather playful artist.