beautiful

adj.

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem, sound

▪ become, grow

▪ make sb/sth

▪

We did all we could to make the room beautiful.

▪ find sb/sth

▪

He found her exquisitely beautiful.

▪ be considered

▪

She was never considered beautiful at school.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ exceptionally, extraordinarily, outstandingly, really, remarkably, supremely (esp. BrE), truly, very

▪ absolutely, perfectly, quite, utterly

▪ just, simply

▪

‘They're just beautiful,’ breathed Jo, when she saw the earrings.

▪ almost

▪

I remember her as pretty, almost beautiful.

▪ amazingly, astonishingly, breathtakingly, impossibly, incredibly, spectacularly, staggeringly, startlingly, strikingly, stunningly, unbelievably

▪ naturally

▪

She didn't need make-up. She was naturally beautiful.

▪ uniquely

▪ exquisitely

▪ serenely

▪ classically, conventionally

▪

Her features were classically beautiful, with perfectly structured high cheekbones.

▪ achingly, eerily, hauntingly, heartbreakingly, painfully, strangely

▪

a hauntingly beautiful melody

Beautiful is used with these nouns: ↑baby, ↑beach, ↑blonde, ↑bloom, ↑blossom, ↑bride, ↑building, ↑city, ↑clothes, ↑coastline, ↑colour, ↑complexion, ↑country, ↑countryside, ↑couple, ↑creature, ↑day, ↑decoration, ↑design, ↑display, ↑dress, ↑evening, ↑fabric, ↑face, ↑feature, ↑figure, ↑flat, ↑flower, ↑friendship, ↑garden, ↑girl, ↑hair, ↑hand, ↑harmony, ↑home, ↑horse, ↑hotel, ↑house, ↑illustration, ↑instrument, ↑jewellery, ↑lady, ↑lake, ↑landscape, ↑leg, ↑mansion, ↑melody, ↑morning, ↑mountain, ↑mouth, ↑music, ↑night, ↑painting, ↑palace, ↑paradise, ↑park, ↑photograph, ↑picture, ↑piece, ↑place, ↑poem, ↑room, ↑route, ↑scene, ↑scenery, ↑scent, ↑setting, ↑shade, ↑sight, ↑singing, ↑skin, ↑smile, ↑song, ↑sound, ↑specimen, ↑spot, ↑stranger, ↑stretch, ↑sunset, ↑sunshine, ↑surroundings, ↑swan, ↑thing, ↑village, ↑voice, ↑waterfall, ↑weather, ↑wife, ↑woman