You vs Cute - What's the difference?
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As an adjective 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.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
you English
Alternative forms
* ye
* ya, yah, yer, yeh, y', yo, yu (informal or eye dialect)
* -cha
* -ja
* u
* yoo (eye dialect)
* yew
* youe, yow, yowe (obsolete)
Pronoun
(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XLII:
- And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you , saying, Ye are spies [...].
* (William Shakespeare), Richard III :
- If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XIX:
- And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city.
* 1975 , Joseph Nazel, Death for Hire :
- You'd better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.
(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
* (Thomas Malory), Le Morte Darthur , Book VIII:
- I charge you , as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.
(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- Both of you should get ready now.
- You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
(subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales , Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
- certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].
* 1814 , (Jane Austen), Mansfield Park :
- You' are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but ' you need not be afraid.
(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
* 2001 , Polly Vernon, The Guardian , 5 May 2001:
- You' can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, ' you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?
Usage notes
* Originally, , respectively.)
* In some forms of English, are all but nonexistent.
* Although , or youse (though not all of these are completely equivalent or considered Standard English).
* The pronoun is usually omitted in imperative sentences, but need not be. In affirmative imperatives, it may be included before the verb (You go right ahead''; ''You stay out of it''); in negative imperatives, it may be included either before the ''don't'', or, more commonly, after it (''Don't you dare go in there''; ''Don't you start now ).
* See for other personal pronouns.
Synonyms
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*: thou
*: ye
*: yer (UK eye dialect)
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*: all of you (plural)
*: you all
*: you + number
*: ye
*: yous/youse
*: y'all, all y'all (Southern US)
*: ya'll (AAVE)
*: you-uns (Midwestern US and Appalachia)
*: yinz
*: you guys/you gals
*: you lot (UK)
*: allyou (Caribbean)
*: yer (UK eye dialect)
* , ye, to you, to thee, to ye
* ye, to you, to ye, to you all
* (one) one, people, they, them
Derived terms
* you're
Determiner
( en determiner)
The individual or group spoken or written to.
- Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
Used before epithets for emphasis.
- You idiot!
Verb
( en verb)
To address (a person) using the pronoun you'', rather than ''thou .
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cute English
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Adjective
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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.
- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
- Emma is so damn cute .
Affected]] or contrived to charm; [[mince#Verb, mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- 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!
Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (acute).
- Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
Derived terms
* cuteness
* cutely
* cutesy
* cutie
* cute as a button
* cute hoor
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