The difference between Beautiful and Cute
When used as adjectives, beautiful means attractive and possessing beauty, whereas cute means possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals.
check bellow for the other definitions of Beautiful and Cute
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Beautiful as an adjective:
Attractive and possessing beauty.
Examples:
"Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful."
"There's a beautiful lake by the town."
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Beautiful as an adjective (of the weather):
Pleasant; clear.
Examples:
"It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk."
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Beautiful as an adjective:
Well executed.
Examples:
"The skater performed a beautiful [[axel]]."
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Cute as an adjective:
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
Examples:
"Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young."
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Cute as an adjective:
Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Examples:
"Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls."
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Cute as an adjective:
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Examples:
"The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor."
"Don't get cute with me, boy!"
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Cute as an adjective:
Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
Examples:
"synonyms: clever shrewd"
"Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?"
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