英语词汇“beauty”的释义、区别辨析及用法例句-英语同义词词典

单词	beauty
例句	beauty noun 1.•the beauty of the scenery:attractiveness, prettiness, good looks, comeliness, allure \| loveliness, charm, appeal, eye-appeal, heavenliness \| winsomeness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness \| splendor, magnificence, grandeur, impressiveness, decorativeness \| gorgeousness, glamour \| literary beauteousness, pulchritude. ANT ugliness. 2.•she is a beauty:beautiful woman, belle, vision, Venus, goddess, beauty queen, picture \| informal babe, hottie, looker, good looker, beaut, siren, doll, arm candy, lovely, stunner, knockout, bombshell, dish, peach, eyeful, fox. ANT hag. 3.•the beauty of this plan:advantage, attraction, strength, benefit, boon, blessing, good thing, strong point, virtue, merit, selling point. ANT drawback.WORD NOTE pulchritude A paradoxical noun because it means beauty but is itself one of the ugliest words in the language. Same goes for the adjectival form pulchritudinous. They're part of a tiny elite cadre of words that possess the very opposite of the qualities they denote. Diminutive, big, foreign, fancy (adjective), colloquialism, and monosyllabic are some others; there are at least a dozen more. Inviting your school-age kids to list as many paradoxical words as they can is a neat way to deepen their relationship to English and help them see that words are both symbols for things and very real things themselves. — DFWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.WORD NOTE See sex appeal Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.
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