beautiful
/ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/ adjective A1- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive. · Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.· There's a beautiful lake by the town.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies. · the house beautiful
- That one likes very much. · He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.· You've done a beautiful thing today.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful. · Beethoven's most beautiful sonata· It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance. · The skater performed a beautiful axel.
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But my father went there once, when I was a boy, and he said it was a long journey through a dangerous country, although nearer to the city where Oz dwells the country is beautiful.
She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
She’s got a beautiful complexion and curly brown hair and she does it up so elegantly.
“There was one of the Munchkin girls who was so beautiful that I soon grew to love her with all my heart.
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