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Definition: Beautifully |
BeautifullyAdverb1. In a beautiful manner; "her face was beautifully made up". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beautifully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Beautifully, Beautiful. After verbs of seeing, feeling, tasting, and smelling, the adverb is often incorrectly used for the adjective. "The colonel looked handsomely in his military dress," "I feel splendidly to-day," "This peach tastes badly," "The rose smells sweetly," are incorrect. Use handsome for handsomely, very well or in good spirits for splendidly, tastes bad or has a disagreeable taste for badly, and sweet for sweetly. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonym: BeautifullySynonym: attractively (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unattractively (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonincrease, Decrease | Phrase: " a gilded halo hovering round decay "; " fine by degrees and beautifully less ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beautifully |
| English words defined with "beautifully": appoint, appointed, Argus shell, attractively ♦ designed, develop ♦ family Nymphalidae ♦ Glaucus, groomed, grow ♦ inconsequentially, inconsequently ♦ King wood ♦ Lithosian ♦ Mandoline ♦ nudibranch, Nymphalidae, Nyula ♦ Oliva ♦ sea slug, Sun bittern, support ♦ Thrush tit, Triton. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beautifully": Abrupt ♦ Beautiful ♦ CAJOLE ♦ Opens up. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Beautifully put, Mr. Karew (See No Evil, Hear No Evil; writing credit: Earl Barret; Arne Sultan) 52 red queens and me are telling you you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod) Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beautifully Trimmed (1920) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A hiker wades the creek along beautifully banded walls near Painted Cave Canyon. Credit: Christine Maxa. |
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| "Gnarled 3" by Cerys Jones Commentary: "Still more driftwood. These are all from the same piece, which is shaped like a beautifully gnarled walking staff." | "Female 4" by Jillian Balfour Commentary: "Female: A woman or girl. (self. my friends decorated me so beautifully. what else could i do, but take a picture?)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ward Beecher | Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. |
John Ruskin | Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. |
Phillips Brooks | Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | It succeeded beautifully. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The little girl, taking this seriously, began to sob again beautifully. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Liza Minnelli | Well, you know, you put it in an expert's hands and if they really know what they're doing, things turn out beautifully. |
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| "Beautifully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Beautifully" is used about 1,242 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.84% | 1,240 | 6,307 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,242 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "beautifully": hit off smb. beautifully. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beautifully": beautifully-appointed, beautifully-crafted, beautifully-cut, beautifully-designed, beautifully-edited, beautifully-filmed, beautifully-kept, beautifully-knitted, beautifully-lit, beautifully-marked, beautifully-measured, beautifully-placed, beautifully-played, beautifully-produced, beautifully-shaped, beautifully-sustained, beautifully-sutured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "beautifully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bukur (beautiful, capitally, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, nicely, prettily). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прекрасно (fine). (various references) | |
Chinese | 美妙地 (Fabulously, Wonderfully). (various references) | |
Czech | senzaènì (famously), krásnì (prettily). (various references) | |
Dutch | net (above-board, beautiful, cleanly cut, elegant, exactly, fair, fine, handsome, honest, just, just now, lovely, neat, net, network, okay, precise, precize, right, upright), mooi (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, nice, pretty). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bele. (various references) | |
Finnish | ihanasti. (various references) | |
German | schön (absolute, beautiful, bonny, brightly, comely, easily, enjoyable, fair, fine, finely, good enough, goodly, great, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking, nicely, precious, pretty, pulchritudinous, really, smoothly, splendid, well). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יפה (appropriately, beautiful, comely, fair, finely, good looking, handsome, lovely, nice, picturesque, pretty, right, well). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szépen (fairly, fine, handsomely, nicely, to get on with one's work, to meet death calmly), nagyszerűen (gorgeously, like one o'clock, magnificently, sublimely, superbly), gyönyörűen. (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan indah. (various references) | |
Italian | magnificamente (magnificently). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 玉門 (beautifully decorated gate), 塗り立てる (to paint beautifully, to paint thickly, to powder heavily). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょくもん (beautifully decorated gate), ぬりたてる (to paint beautifully, to paint thickly, to powder heavily). (various references) | |
Korean | 아름답게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eautifullybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | belamente. (various references) | |
Romanian | minunat (beautiful, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, splendid, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured). (various references) | |
Russian | чудно (wonderfully, wondrously), красиво (prettily). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lepo (dress up, finely, nicely). (various references) | |
Spanish | bellamente (lovely), hermosamente (lovely). (various references) | |
Swedish | vackert (beautiful, fine, handsomely), skönt (prettily, that's fine). (various references) | |
Turkish | hoşça (deliciously, nicely, pleasantly), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | formose, puchre. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 39, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai touV ciliouV eptakosiouV ebdomhkonta pente siklouV epoihsan eiV taV agkulaV toiV stuloiV kai katecruswsen taV kefalidaV autwn kai katekosmhsen autouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et balteum ex hisdem coloribus sicut praeceperat Dominus Mosi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And a girdil of the same colours, as the Lord comaundide to Moyses. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the brodrynge of the girdel that was vpon it, was of the same stuffe and after the same worke of golde, Iacincte, scarlet, purple and twyned bysse, as the Lorde commaunded Moses. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses. |
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| Language | Exodus Chapter 39, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang bakus nga sinawalo nga maayong pagkabuhat nga diha sa ibabaw niini, nga igbabakus, sa mao ra nga butang ug sama niini nga pagkabuhat: sa bulawan, sa azul, ug sa purpura, ug sa mapula, sa lino nga fino nga linubid; ingon sa gisugo ni Jehova kang Moises. |
| Croatian | tkanica što je na njemu stajala bila je napravljena od zlata, ljubièastog, crvenog i tamnocrvenog prediva i prepredenog lana kao i on, i u jednome komadu s njim, kako je Jahve naredio Mojsiju. |
| Danish | Og dens Bælte, som brugtes, når den skulde tages på, var i eet med den og af samme Arbejde, af Guldtråd, violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn og tvundet Byssus, således som HERREN havde pålagt Moses. |
| Dutch | En de kunstelijke riem zijns efods, die daarop was, was gelijk zijn werk, van hetzelfde, van goud, van hemelsblauw, en purper, en scharlaken, en fijn getweernd linnen, gelijk als de HEERE aan Mozes bevolen had. |
| Finnish | Ja vyö, joka oli oleva kasukassa sen kiinnittämiseksi, oli tehty samasta kappaleesta kuin se, samalla tavalla kullasta sekä punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista ja kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista, niinkuin Herra oli Moosekselle käskyn antanut. |
| French | La ceinture était du même travail que l`éphod et fixée sur lui; elle était d`or, de fil bleu, pourpre et cramoisi, et de fin lin retors, comme l`Éternel l`avait ordonné à Moïse. |
| German | Und sein Gurt war nach derselben Kunst und Arbeit von Gold, blauem und rotem Purpur, Scharlach und gezwirnter weißer Leinwand, wie der HERR dem Mose geboten hatte. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ikat pinggang tenunan halus dibuat dari bahan yang sama dan dijahitkan pada efod itu sehingga menjadi satu bagian seperti yang diperintahkan TUHAN kepada Musa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka adapun sandang efod, yang suatu perbuatan kepandaian dan yang berhubung dengan dia, ia itu diperbuat begitu juga dari pada emas dan benang yang biru laut dan ungu dan kirmizi warnanya dan dari pada bisus yang dipintal, setuju dengan firman Tuhan yang kepada Musa. |
| Italian | La cintura, che lo teneva legato e che stava sopra di esso, era della stessa fattura ed era di un sol pezzo: era intessuta d'oro, di porpora viola e porpora rossa, di scarlatto e di bisso ritorto, come il Signore aveva ordinato a Mosè. |
| Maori | Me te whitiki whakairo e mau ana ki tona epora, kotahi ano te mea i hanga ai raua, me te hanganga ano; he koura, he puru, he papura, he ngangana, he rinena miro pai; ko ta Ihowa i whakahau ai ki a Mohi. |
| Norwegian | Beltet som skulde sitte på den og holde den sammen, gjorde de i ett stykke med den og i samme slags vevning som den, av gull og blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og fint, tvunnet lingarn, således som Herren hadde befalt Moses. |
| Rumanian | Brkul era de aceeaw lucrqturq ca efodul wi prins de el; era de aur, de fir albastru, purpuriu wi cqrmiziu, wi de in subyire rqsucit, cum poruncise lui Moise Domnul. |
| Spanish | Su ceñidor para ajustar el efod, el cual está sobre éste, era de la misma hechura y de los mismos materiales: oro, azul, púrpura, carmesí y lino torcido, como Jehovah había mandado a Moisés. |
| Swedish | Och skärpet, som skulle sitta på efoden och sammanhålla den, gjordes i ett stycke med den och av samma slags vävnad: av guld och av mörkblått, purpurrött, rosenrött och tvinnat vitt garn, allt såsom HERREN hade bjudit Mose. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "beautifully": unbeautifully. (additional references) | |
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"Beautifully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beatifull, beautefull, beautfull, beautifillly, beautifly, beautifull, beautyfull, beuatifull, beutifull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beautifully" (pronounced byuw"tuflē) |
| 3 | -f l ē | awfully, briefly, chiefly, colorfully, medfly, powerfully, roughly, safely, stiffly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-l-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: beautiful. | |
-3 letters: beautify, faultily, fauteuil, futilely, liftable, tableful. | |
-4 letters: baleful, ballute, beatify, bullate, fibulae, flyable, flybelt, ululate. | |
-5 letters: albeit, albite, alible, bailey, ballet, beauty, befall, billet, bluely, bullae, bullet, faille, faulty, fealty, featly, fetial, fibula, fillet, flatly, flutey, futile, labile, lately, lealty, liable, liefly, luteal, tabuli, taille, telial, tubful, tubule, tuille, ubiety. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-l-t-u-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unbeautifully. | |
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