pulchritudinous

1. 1.

   used of persons only; having great physical beauty

   “pulchritudinous movie stars”

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Questions about pulchritudinous

What does pulchritudinous mean?

pulchritudinous means "used of persons only; having great physical beauty".

How many syllables are in pulchritudinous?

pulchritudinous has 5 syllables and divides as pulch-ri-tu-di-nous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pulchritudinous a common word?

pulchritudinous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.