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say it: kyoot
cute is an adjective meaning "attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness". It is pronounced /ˈkjut/ — kyoot. It carries 2 recorded senses.
attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
“a cute kid with pigtails”
“a cute little apartment”
“cunning kittens”
“a cunning baby”
obviously contrived to charm
“an insufferably precious performance”
“a child with intolerably cute mannerisms”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.