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美しい — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beautiful adj Having qualities that give great pleasure to look at, hear, or experience.
  • beautify verb To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
  • beauty noun The quality of being pleasing to look at or otherwise highly attractive.
  • fair adj Treating people equally and reasonably; just.
  • pulchritudinous adj Having great physical beauty.
  • smart adjective Intelligent; quick to learn or understand.

Senses

美しい is used for these senses in English:

  • beautiful Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive. [from 1520s]
  • beautify (transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
  • beauty (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
  • fair Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
  • pulchritudinous (literary) Having great physical beauty.
  • smart Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.

beautify — full definition

  1. verb To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
  2. verb To become beautiful.
  3. verb To make oneself beautiful.
  4. verb Synonym of pretty-print.

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