Webster's English Dictionary

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beautiful

beau.ti.ful \'byu:t-i-f*l\ \-f(*-)le-\ \-f*l-n*s\ aj : having qualities of 
   beauty or that excite sensuous or aesthetic pleasur e: BEAUTIFUL applies to 
   whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion 
   through the senses; LOVELY is close to BEAUTIFUL but applies to a narrower 
   range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or 
   exquisite; HANDSOME suggests essentially an approval of what conforms to a 
   standard in regularity, symmetry, fitness of proportion, quality of 
   workmanship; PRETTY applies to what gives an immediate but often 
   superficial or insubstantial impression of attractiveness; COMELY is like 
   HANDSOME in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally 
   responded to; FAIR suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or 
   freshness - beau.ti.ful.ly aj SYN syn LOVELY, HANDSOME, PRETTY, COMELY, 
   FAIR