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BEAUTEOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beauteous mean?
• BEAUTEOUS (adjective)
The adjective BEAUTEOUS has 1 sense:
1. (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight
Familiarity information: BEAUTEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Derivation:
beauteousness (the quality of being good looking and attractive)
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Context examples
She saw all the glories of the camp—its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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