[Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics†.
[-beauty of people] pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty
unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry &c 242; comeliness, fairness &c
adj.; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure†;
trigness†; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness,
magnificence; sublimity, sublimification†.
concinnity†, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi [Fr.],
style.
Venus, Aphrodite†, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo†,
Hyperion, Adonis†, Antionous†, Narcissus.
peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c
(ornament) 847; work of art.
flower, flow'ret gay†; [flowers: list] wildflower; rose, lily,
anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger
lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley,
ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower.
pleasurableness &c 829.
beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration &c 847;
calisthenics†.
[person who is beautiful] beauty; hunk (of men).
V. be beautiful &c adj.; shine, beam, bloom; become one &c (accord) 23;
set off, grace.
render beautiful &c adj.; beautify; polish, burnish; gild &c
(decorate) 847; set out.
snatch a grace beyond the reach of art [Pope].
Adj. beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely,
graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive &c (inviting) 615;
delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny
[Scot.]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-
proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical &c (regular) 242; harmonious
&c (color) 428; sightly.
fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.
goodly, dapper, tight, jimp†; gimp; janty†, jaunty; trig, natty,
quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy†.
bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy;
blooming, in full bloom.
brilliant, shining; beamy†, beaming; sparkling, splendid,
resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.
rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious.
artistic, artistical†; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a
peindre [Fr.]; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious.
enchanting &c (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming &c (accordant) 23;
ornamental &c 847.
undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless &c (perfect) 650.
Phr. auxilium non leve vultus habet [Lat.] [Ovid]; beauty born of
murmuring sound [Wordsworth]; flowers preach to us if we will hear
[C.G.
Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat.]
[Vergil]; none but the brave deserve the fair [Dryden]; thou who hast
the fatal gift of beauty [Byron].