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RyanJ · Coach

words that mean beautiful

blubirde · Chanel

According to dictionary.com:

pretty - appealing, beauteous, beautiful, boss, charming, cheerful, cher, comely, cute, dainty, darling, delicate, delightful, dishy, dreamboat, elegant, eyeful, fair, fine, foxy, good-looking, graceful, handsome, looker, lovely, lulu, mink, neat, nice, number, picture, pleasant, pleasing, pulchritudinous, tasteful, ten, trim

beautiful - admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, sightly, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful

gorgeous - attractive, beaut, bright, brilliant, centerfold, colorful, dazzling, delightful, dream, drop-dead, elegant, enjoyable, exquisite, fine, flamboyant, foxy, gaudy, glittering, glorious, good, good-looking, grand, handsome, impressive, knockout, lavish, lovely, lulu, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, ostentatious, pleasing, plush, pretentious, pulchritudinous, ravishing, resplendent, showy, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, superb, ten

cute - beautiful, charming, dainty, delightful, perky, pleasant, pretty, ambrosial, appealing, attractive, captivation, charming, darling, dear, delectable, delicious, delightful, dishy, fetching, heavenly, lovable, luscious, pleasing, precious, sexy, suave

Belle is beauty in French.

Jolie is pretty in French. (tres jolie)

(I think those are correct in french - it's been awhile. Jolie could actually mean funny, too. hmmm....)

Hermes

let's see... for beautiful, there's belissimo (Italian) beau (French) bonito (Portuguese) hermoso (Spanish)

bonny (Irish)

then I did the on-line merriam-webster thesaurus

One entry found for beautiful. Entry Word: beautiful
Function: adjective
Text: very pleasing to look at <a strikingly beautiful child who is being eagerly pursued by all the modeling agencies>
Synonyms attractive, beauteous, bonny [chiefly British], comely, cute, fair, gorgeous, handsome, knockout, lovely, pretty, ravishing, sightly, stunning, taking
Related Words alluring, appealing, charming, delightful, eye-catching, glamorous (also glamourous), prepossessing; elegant, exquisite, glorious, resplendent, splendid, statuesque, sublime, superb; flawless, perfect, radiant; dainty, delicate; personable, presentable
Near Antonyms abhorrent, abominable, bad, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, hideous, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, terrible; unappealing, unappetizing, unpleasant, unpleasing, unprepossessing
Antonyms homely, ill-favored, plain, ugly, unattractive, unbeautiful, unhandsome, unlovely, unpretty, unsightly

-- Edited by detroit at 13:10, 2005-04-28

ico · Dooney & Bourke

In italian:

beautiful: bella (bellissima is very beautiful) bell in french

pretty: carina (jolie in french)

sweet: dolce (douce in french)

charming: affascinante (that's charmante in french)

gorgeous: splendida (etonnante in french)

cute: it's also carina

attractive : attraente

delightful: deliziosa (delicieuse in french)

graceful : graziosa

lovely: amabile

exquisite: squisita

I don't know, tell me some other words...

All of them aredeclined in female (both french and italian)

Hermes

so carina means cute and pretty? so that's our very own Karina!

RyanJ - this is a good translation site - you can put your word in in English then translate it to whatever language is on the drop down list

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Tati · Chanel

I'm from El Salvador and we use the words chula, linda, bonita, bellesa(sp?) I guess you can say bella for short.

Amelie · Kenneth Cole

French--

belle- beautiful, beau- handsome

joli- pretty (masc.), jolie- pretty (fem.)

ravissante- stunning (only for women)

beau <<comme un dieu>> handsome as a god

jolie <<comme un coeur>> pretty as a heart (equiv. of "pretty as a picture")

chaud- hot (masc.), chaude (fem.)

séduisante- seductive

il/elle a du charme- he/she is charming

épatant- fantastic

mignon/mignonne- cute

formidable- great

HTH!

-- Edited by Amelie at 19:56, 2005-04-28

rosie_the_riveter · Gucci

in spanish:

bonita ~ pretty

hermosa ~beautiful

preciosa ~ precious