beauteous

adjective

beau·​te·​ous ˈbyü-tē-əs How to pronounce beauteous (audio)
Synonyms of beauteousnext
chiefly literary
: beautiful
beauteous mountains
a beauteous smile
… thou hast given me in this beauteous face / A world of earthly blessings to my soul— William Shakespeare
… high summer pours her blue glory and her golden light out of that beauteous sky …— Charlotte Brontë
"My eyes swept over all before me. The spheres were plain as villages that dot a landscape. I saw most beauteous forms, yet like our own."— Herman Melville
beauteously adverb
beauteousness noun

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Examples of beauteous in a Sentence

the day ended with a beauteous sunset
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But what our Gear team testers prized greatly in KitchenAid’s burr grinder was its beauteous ease of cleaning, with burrs accessibly placed just beneath the hopper. — Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024 Or in absorbing Laurie Anderson’s mesmerizing Amelia — her beauteous, immediate, dreaming of a woman whose courage took her into the void, and history. — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024

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Etymology

Middle English, from beaute beauty

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of beauteous was in the 15th century

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“Beauteous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beauteous. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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beauteous

adjective
beau·​te·​ous ˈbyüt-ē-əs How to pronounce beauteous (audio)
: beautiful sense 1
beauteously adverb
beauteousness noun
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