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Adjective: beautiful  byoo-ti-ful
  1. Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
    "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
     
  2. (of weather) highly enjoyable
    "what a beautiful day";
    - lovely

See also: attractive, beauteous, beauty, better-looking, bonnie [UK, dialect], bonny [UK, dialect], comely [archaic], exquisite, fair, fine-looking, glorious, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, lovely, on fleek [N. Amer, informal], picturesque, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, pretty-pretty, pulchritudinous, ravishing, resplendent, scenic, sightly, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, well-favored [US], well-favoured [Brit, Cdn]

Antonym: ugly

Encyclopedia: Beautiful, Dirty, Rich