bell-, bel-
(Latin: pretty, beautiful)
beauteous
beautician
beauties
A bevy of beauties.
beautification
beautified
beautifier
beautiful
1. Very pleasing and impressive to look at, listen to, touch, smell, or taste.
2. Very good or enjoyable.
3. Having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.
4. Delighting the senses or mind; such as, a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
5. excellent of its kind: "The chef served us a beautiful evening meal."
6. Wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.
beautifully
beautifulness
beautify
beauty
Etymology: from about 1275, from Anglo-Norman
beute, from Old French
bealte, earlier
beltet, from Vulgar Latin
bellitatem, "state of being handsome", from Latin
bellus, "fine, beautiful"; in classical Latin especially a reference to women and children, or ironically or insultingly of men.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
—Murphy's Law
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.
—Ladies Home Journal
beauty parlor (lexicomedy)
A place where some women go to dye.
belladonna
bellafigura
belle
Subscribe to this FREE Focusing on Words Newsletter