English words for 'The quality of being pretty.'
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noun
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- refined taste; tact
- lack of physical strength
- lightness in movement or manner
- something considered choice to eat
- slenderness
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- The quality of being delicate.
noun
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- having a very fine texture
- the quality of being very good indeed
- the property of being very narrow or thin
- The quality or degree of being fine.
- The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
- The ratio of length to width of a ship, aircraft or rocket
adj
- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
- That one likes very much.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
- (of weather) highly enjoyable
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
adj
- attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
- obviously contrived to charm
- Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
adj
noun
adj
- pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm
- having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull
- having power to arouse interest
- Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
- Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
- Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
noun
- attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner
- (countable, colloquial, Jamaica) Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”).
- (countable, commerce, slang) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
- (uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
- (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
- The act by which something is taken.
- (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
- the act of someone who picks up or takes something
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
- (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
- (informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
- Tasting of sugars.
- Of a helpful disposition.
- Of a pleasant smell.
- Not of a salty taste.
- Of a pleasing disposition.
- (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
- (mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- Of a pleasant sound.
- Fresh; not salt or brackish.
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- An intensifier.
- (Australia, slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
- pleasing to the ear
- with sweetening added
- having a natural fragrance
- (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
- not containing or composed of salt water
- not soured or preserved
- having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
- having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
- pleasing to the senses
- pleasing to the mind or feeling
adv
intj
noun
- (countable, especially UK, India) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
- (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.
- (countable, especially UK) A food eaten for dessert.
- a dish served as the last course of a meal
- a food rich in sugar
- the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
- the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
noun
- The love of beauty.
- Concept often seen in Radical Behaviorism to refer to putting community needs ahead of direct needs. Usage example, "A Skinnerian explanation of an adult facing danger to save a child or people going to war rather than tolerating tyranny, is a mixture of natural endowments and a history of verbal reinforcement of contingencies that put remote reinforcers ahead of direct personal safety, resulting in valuing biological mechanisms capable of overriding innate personal-survival mechanisms."
- Concept often seen in Relational Frame Theory/Training/Therapy (RFT) to mean putting longterm goals ahead of short-term goals, as a demonstration of an organism's capacity to do rule-governed behavior.
- Meaning in use: focused on things that should be loved. For example, philocaly is the virtue of prioritizing profoundly important things over lush, hedonistic things (i.e., "Participant chose the safety of a child over the immediate satisfaction of a chocolate bar."
noun
- (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- an outstanding example of its kind
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
adj
intj
noun
- alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- (slang, countable) A beautiful woman.
- (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
verb
adj
- Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
- Generous or noble in character.
- Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
- Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
- Good, appealing, appropriate.
- (of weather) Fine, clear and bright.
- Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
- Ample; moderately large.
- given or giving freely
- pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
prefix
noun
- the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)
- the quality of being popular
- (idiomatic, slang) Hot bitumen used by roofers.
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Something excellent or exciting.
- (idiomatic, colloquial) An attractive person. (often used as a come-on or pickup line)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, stuff. (colloquial)
noun
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- refined taste; tact
- lack of physical strength
- lightness in movement or manner
- something considered choice to eat
- slenderness
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- The quality of being delicate.
noun
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- having a very fine texture
- the quality of being very good indeed
- the property of being very narrow or thin
- The quality or degree of being fine.
- The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
- The ratio of length to width of a ship, aircraft or rocket
noun
- attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner
- (countable, colloquial, Jamaica) Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”).
- (countable, commerce, slang) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
- (uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
verb
noun
- The love of beauty.
- Concept often seen in Radical Behaviorism to refer to putting community needs ahead of direct needs. Usage example, "A Skinnerian explanation of an adult facing danger to save a child or people going to war rather than tolerating tyranny, is a mixture of natural endowments and a history of verbal reinforcement of contingencies that put remote reinforcers ahead of direct personal safety, resulting in valuing biological mechanisms capable of overriding innate personal-survival mechanisms."
- Concept often seen in Relational Frame Theory/Training/Therapy (RFT) to mean putting longterm goals ahead of short-term goals, as a demonstration of an organism's capacity to do rule-governed behavior.
- Meaning in use: focused on things that should be loved. For example, philocaly is the virtue of prioritizing profoundly important things over lush, hedonistic things (i.e., "Participant chose the safety of a child over the immediate satisfaction of a chocolate bar."
noun
- (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- an outstanding example of its kind
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
adj
intj
noun
- alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- (slang, countable) A beautiful woman.
- (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
verb
noun
- the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)
- the quality of being popular
- (idiomatic, slang) Hot bitumen used by roofers.
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Something excellent or exciting.
- (idiomatic, colloquial) An attractive person. (often used as a come-on or pickup line)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, stuff. (colloquial)
adj
- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
- That one likes very much.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
- (of weather) highly enjoyable
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
adj
- attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
- obviously contrived to charm
- Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
adj
noun
adj
- pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm
- having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull
- having power to arouse interest
- Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
- Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
- Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
adj
noun
- (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
- (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
- The act by which something is taken.
- (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
- the act of someone who picks up or takes something
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
- (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
- (informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
- Tasting of sugars.
- Of a helpful disposition.
- Of a pleasant smell.
- Not of a salty taste.
- Of a pleasing disposition.
- (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
- (mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- Of a pleasant sound.
- Fresh; not salt or brackish.
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- An intensifier.
- (Australia, slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
- pleasing to the ear
- with sweetening added
- having a natural fragrance
- (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
- not containing or composed of salt water
- not soured or preserved
- having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
- having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
- pleasing to the senses
- pleasing to the mind or feeling
adv
intj
noun
- (countable, especially UK, India) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
- (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.
- (countable, especially UK) A food eaten for dessert.
- a dish served as the last course of a meal
- a food rich in sugar
- the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
- the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
adj
- Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
- Generous or noble in character.
- Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
- Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
- Good, appealing, appropriate.
- (of weather) Fine, clear and bright.
- Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
- Ample; moderately large.
- given or giving freely
- pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne