pulchritude

[puhl-kri-tood, -tyood]

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noun

physical beauty; comeliness.

Origin of pulchritude

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin pulchritūdō beauty, equivalent to pulchri- (combining form of pulcher beautiful) + -tūdō -tude

Synonyms for pulchritude

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loveliness, beauteousness, fairness.

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Related Words for pulchritude

loveliness, allure, elegance, attraction, allurement, adorableness, prettiness, glamor

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Historical Examples of pulchritude

She thrust it out and strove to find encouragement in its pulchritude.
The Californians
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
I have never had any money and my particular kind of pulchritude doesn't appeal to them.
Paradise Garden
George Gibbs
If he has any, her crude manoeuvres make him laugh and he is repelled by her lack of pulchritude and amiability.
In Defense of Women
H. L. Mencken
From the beginning he and his friends have capitalized his poverty of pulchritude and his pulchritudinous poverty.
Idling in Italy
Joseph Collins
Her pulchritude has a background of good character and she is alive with the spirit of the New World.
In the Days of Poor Richard
Irving Bacheller

British Dictionary definitions for pulchritude

pulchritude

noun

formal, or literary physical beauty

Derived Formspulchritudinous, adjective

Word Origin for pulchritude

C15: from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher beautiful

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Word Origin and History for pulchritude

"beauty," c.1400, from Latin pulchritudo "beauty; excellence, attractiveness," from pulcher "beautiful," of unknown origin.