beauteous

[byoo-tee-uhs, -tyuhs]

adjective

Chiefly Literary.

1. beautiful.

beauteous

/ ˈbjuːtɪəs /

adjective

1. a poetic word for beautiful

Other Word Forms

• beauteously adverb
• beauteousness noun
• unbeauteous adjective
• unbeauteously adverb
• unbeauteousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of beauteous¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; beauty, -ous

Example Sentences

The effect is that of being submerged in a lush wash of beauteous flute chords.

From Los Angeles Times

She made “Harawi” into a beauteous yet dark landmark of singing.

From Los Angeles Times

Veronique Black, a friend of Koskimaki and his wife, Teresa, noted that the sad portrayal of the man was a direct contrast to the beauteous gleam of the wall.

From Seattle Times

“We got a beauteous subject, Kev; Crosby laughed at first, but then he signed off on it.”

From Literature

She regularly treated warmly expressive lyric passages as theatrically sudden pauses for slowly drinking in a beauteous sight before once again briskly moving on.

From Los Angeles Times