beauty

Other forms of beauty

plural

beauties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beauty

What does beauty mean?

beauty means "the qualities that give pleasure to the senses". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beauty?

beauty has 2 syllables: beau-ty. The stress falls on "beau". In IPA it is /ˈbjuti/.

What is another word for beauty?

Close synonyms include smasher, stunner, knockout, ravisher, sweetheart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of beauty?

The recorded antonyms are ugliness.

Is beauty a common word?

beauty is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.