beauty
Roget category 845
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections
#845.
Beauty
noun
beauty,
the beautiful,
to kalon [Gr.],
le beau ideal.
[Science of the perception of beauty]
aesthetics,
callaesthetics†.
[-beauty of people]
pulchritude,
form,
elegance,
grace,
beauty unadorned,
natural beauty —
symmetry
etc.
242 —
comeliness,
fairness
etc.
adj. —
polish,
gloss —
good effect,
good looks —
belle tournure† —
trigness† —
bloom,
brilliancy,
radiance,
splendor,
gorgeousness,
magnificence —
sublimity,
sublimification†.
concinnity†,
delicacy,
refinement —
charm,
je ne sais quoi [Fr.],
style.
Venus,
Aphrodite†,
Hebe,
the Graces,
Peri,
Houri,
Cupid,
Apollo†,
Hyperion,
Adonis†,
Antionous†,
Narcissus.
peacock,
butterfly —
garden —
flower of,
pink of —
bijou —
jewel
etc.
(ornament)
847 —
work of art.
flower,
flow'ret gay† —
[flowers: list]
wildflower —
rose,
lily,
anemone,
asphodel,
buttercup,
crane's bill,
daffodil,
tulip,
tiger lily,
day lily,
begonia,
marigold,
geranium,
lily of the valley,
ranunculus,
rhododendron,
windflower.
pleasurableness
etc.
829.
beautifying —
landscaping,
landscape gardening —
decoration
etc.
847 —
calisthenics†.
[person who is beautiful]
beauty —
hunk
(of men).
verb
be beautiful
etc.
adj. —
shine,
beam,
bloom —
become one
etc.
(accord)
23 —
set off,
grace.
render beautiful
etc.
adj. —
beautify —
polish,
burnish —
gild
etc.
(decorate)
847 —
set out.
snatch a grace beyond the reach of art"
[Pope].
adjective
beautiful,
beauteous —
handsome —
gorgeous —
pretty —
lovely,
graceful,
elegant,
prepossessing —
attractive
etc.
(inviting)
615 —
delicate,
dainty,
refined —
fair,
personable,
comely,
seemly —
bonny [Scot.] —
good-looking —
well-favored,
well-made,
well-formed,
well-proportioned —
proper,
shapely —
symmetrical
etc.
(regular)
242 —
harmonious
etc.
(color)
428 —
sightly.
fit to be seen,
passable,
not amiss.
goodly,
dapper,
tight,
jimp† —
gimp —
janty†,
jaunty —
trig,
natty,
quaint,
trim,
tidy,
neat,
spruce,
smart,
tricksy†.
bright,
bright eyed —
rosy cheeked,
cherry cheeked —
rosy,
ruddy —
blooming,
in full bloom.
brilliant,
shining —
beamy†,
beaming —
sparkling,
splendid,
resplendent,
dazzling,
glowing —
glossy,
sleek.
rich,
superb,
magnificent,
grand,
fine,
sublime,
showy,
specious.
artistic,
artistical† —
aesthetic —
picturesque,
pictorial —
fait a peindre [Fr.] —
well-composed,
well grouped,
well varied —
curious.
enchanting
etc.
(pleasure-giving)
829 —
becoming
etc.
(accordant)
23 —
ornamental
etc.
847.
undeformed,
undefaced,
unspotted —
spotless
etc.
(perfect)
650.
phrase
auxilium non leve vultus habet [Lat.]
[Ovid];
beauty born of murmuring sound"
[Wordsworth];
flowers preach to us if we will hear"
[C.G. Rossetti];
gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat.]
[Vergil];
none but the brave deserve the fair"
[Dryden];
thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty"
[Byron].
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