cute

1. 1.

   attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

   “a cute kid with pigtails”

   “a cute little apartment”

   “cunning kittens”

   “a cunning baby”

   Synonymscunning

   Similarattractive
2. 2.

   obviously contrived to charm

   “an insufferably precious performance”

   “a child with intolerably cute mannerisms”

   Synonymsprecious

   Similarartful

Other forms of cute

comparative or superlative

cuter

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 cute

What does cute mean?

cute means "attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cute?

cute has 1 syllable: cute. In IPA it is /ˈkjut/.

What is another word for cute?

Close synonyms include cunning, precious. 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.

Is cute a common word?

cute 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.

What rhymes with cute?

6 words rhyme with cute. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.