beauteous

adjective

beau·​te·​ous ˈbyü-tē-əs 

chiefly literary

: beautiful

beauteous mountains

a beauteous smile

… thou hast given me in this beauteous face / A world of earthly blessings to my soul

—William Shakespeare

… high summer pours her blue glory and her golden light out of that beauteous sky …

—Charlotte Brontë

"My eyes swept over all before me. The spheres were plain as villages that dot a landscape. I saw most beauteous forms, yet like our own."

—Herman Melville

beauteously adverb

beauteousness noun

Synonyms

• aesthetic
• esthetic
• aesthetical
• esthetical
• attractive
• beautiful
• bonny [chiefly British]
• bonnie
• comely
• cute
• drop-dead
• fair
• fetching
• good
• good-looking
• goodly
• gorgeous
• handsome
• knockout
• likely
• lovely
• lovesome
• pretty
• ravishing
• seemly
• sightly
• stunning
• taking
• well-favored

Examples of beauteous in a Sentence

the day ended with a beauteous sunset

Recent Examples on the Web

But what our Gear team testers prized greatly in KitchenAid’s burr grinder was its beauteous ease of cleaning, with burrs accessibly placed just beneath the hopper. —Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024

Or in absorbing Laurie Anderson’s mesmerizing Amelia — her beauteous, immediate, dreaming of a woman whose courage took her into the void, and history. —Matt Thompson, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024

In June, Art Shield launched a three-day celebration of Ukrainian culture there with art, live music (five bands) and panels that included the brave and beauteous and renowned TV correspondent of the war Shelby Wilder. —Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024

Opened in 1877, this stretch of track zooms along the beauteous Cornish coast, a treasure trove of coves, azure seas, white-sand beaches, and beautiful coastal towns once adored by the likes of novelist Virginia Woolf and other celebrities. —Luke Abrahams, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2024

But nothing beats going into a bakery and admiring the beauteous bounty of sweetness in the pastry case. —Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023

That is quite some poetically beauteous dreaming. —Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021

After making the early morning trek to the farmers market, selecting the very best peak summer produce, and schlepping a bursting tote bag back home, finding a once-beauteous tomato smashed at the bottom of your bag is one of summer’s biggest little bummers. —Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 2 Sep. 2021

Raquel Welch, who did a lot of her own skating, is most credible as the beauteous but tough star for whom team owner Kevin McCarthy has big plans. —Carmel Dagan, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from beaute beauty

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

beauteous

adjective

beau·​te·​ous ˈbyüt-ē-əs 

: beautiful sense 1

beauteously adverb

beauteousness noun