Roget's Thesaurus

#845. Beauty

Nouns

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).

Verbs

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].

Adjectives

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.

Phrases

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 virtus [Lat.] [Vergil]; none but the brave deserve the fair [Dryden]; thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty [Byron].