beautiful

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈbjuːtɪ.fəl/|/ˈbjuːtɪ.fʊl/    /ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/|[bju.ɾə.fəl]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
    — The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
形容词 adj.
  1. Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
    — Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
  2. Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.; Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
    — the house beautiful
  3. That one likes very much.
    — He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
  4. Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
    — Beethoven's most beautiful sonata
  5. Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
    — The skater performed a beautiful axel.

词形变化

more beautiful comparative most beautiful superlative beautifuls plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Old Latin duenos
Old Latin *duenelos
Vulgar Latin bellus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Vulgar Latin -itātem
Vulgar Latin *bellitātem
Anglo-Norman biautébor.
Middle English beaute
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English bewteful
English beautiful
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Old Latin duenos
Old Latin *duenelos
Vulgar Latin bellus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Vulgar Latin -itātem
Vulgar Latin *bellitātem
Anglo-Norman biautébor.
Middle English beaute
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English bewteful
English beautiful
From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (“attractive to the eye, beautiful”), equivalent to beauty + -ful. In this sense, largely displaced Old English fæġer (whence fair).
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