cute
/kjuːt/ adjective A1- 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. · Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
- Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way. · Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
- Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous. · He's got such cute buns.
- Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy. · 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!
- Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute) · Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
- Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance). · There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
Comparative cuter · Superlative cutest
From the library
She says it looked cute, all right all right, but it made her sick.
I love to draw pictures of cute animals.
The koalas are very cute.
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