beauty — OAT · Shobdo

beauty

noun

1 a young woman of great beauty | the raw beauty of the Australian deserts:

attractiveness, prettiness, good looks, pleasingness, comeliness, allure, allurement;

loveliness, charm, appeal, heavenliness, voluptuousness;

winsomeness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness;

splendor, magnificence, grandeur, impressiveness, picturesqueness, artistry, decorativeness;

gorgeousness, glamour, irresistibility;

Scottish, & Northern English bonniness;

formal beauteousness, pulchritude.

▷antonyms ugliness.

2 Esther was no beauty:

beautiful woman, belle, vision, charmer, enchantress, Venus, goddess, beauty queen, English rose, picture, seductress;

French femme fatale;

informal looker, good looker, lovely, stunner, knockout, bombshell, dish, cracker, smasher, peach, eyeful;

British, informal bit of all right.

▷antonyms ugly woman; hag.

3 the beauty of the system is that the information can be called up instantaneously:

advantage, attraction, strength, benefit, asset, draw, lure, pull, strong point, boon, blessing, virtue, merit, selling point, good thing/point, bonus, plus, added extra.

▷antonyms drawback.