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BEAUTIFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beautifully mean? 

BEAUTIFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb BEAUTIFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a beautiful mannerplay

  Familiarity information: BEAUTIFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEAUTIFULLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a beautiful manner

Synonyms:

attractively; beautifully

Context example:

her face was beautifully made up

Pertainym:

beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)


 Context examples 


Neptune will be beautifully supportive of the full moon, and as the planet of unconditional love and compassion, Neptune will make sure love triumphs over all.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

How beautifully her last landscape is done!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was brought out forward in a wide-margined, beautifully decorated volume that struck the holiday trade and sold like wildfire.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he called through the door to his wife: “Wife, come out; here is a bird, come and look at it and hear how beautifully it sings.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A tall and beautifully proportioned man, very elegantly dressed, was strolling towards us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beautifully ornamented tusks were documented as far away as the Middle East and India.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)

A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She was so glad he didn't hate her for the dreadful things she said, but took them so beautifully and was kinder than ever.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of immense value.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had thought all the rooms at Thornfield beautifully clean and well arranged; but it appears I was mistaken.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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