beautiful

Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.

There's a beautiful lake by the town.

It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

It is a beautiful kitchen! — It is beautiful.
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2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.

You've done a beautiful thing today.

It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.

The skater performed a beautiful axel.

en-adj

beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)

more beautiful (comparative)
most beautiful (superlative)

wonderful

any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just

grotesque

antonym(s) of “possessing charm and attractive”

From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).


beautiful

The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.

Hey, beautiful!

Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.