Pulchritudinous vs Beautiful - What's the difference?
pulchritudinous | beautiful |
(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]:
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!
As adjectives the difference between pulchritudinous and beautiful
is that pulchritudinous is having great physical beauty while beautiful is attractive and possessing charm.pulchritudinous
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.”
Synonyms
* comelyDerived terms
* pulchritudinouslybeautiful
English
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)
