beautyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjuːti/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈbjuɾi]
  • (Norfolk) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːti/
  • (Norfolk) Homophone: booty
  • 韻: -uːti

名詞

beauty (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 beauties)

1. The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
   • 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, lines 1–5, page 3:

     A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Say, hast thou seen enough!' `I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,' I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, “chapter I”, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 152:

     "The aviators didn't get him," Denham replied slowly. "What?" "It was Beauty. As always Beauty killed the Beast."

   • 1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro
3. Someone who is beautiful.

   Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

4. Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

   What a goal! That was a real beauty!

5. An excellent or egregious example of something.

   He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!

6. (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

   The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

7. (physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
8. Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
9. (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon XVIII. [The Marriage Ring; or, The Mysteriousness and Duties of Marriage.] Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 277:

     Menander in the comedy brings in a man turning his wife from his house, because she stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.

10. (archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

使用する際の注意点

• Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

同意語

• (property, quality): good-lookingness, gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness, see Thesaurus:beauty
• (someone who is beautiful): belle, looker, good looker, see Thesaurus:beautiful person or Thesaurus:beautiful woman
• (something pleasing): gem, jewel

反意語

• (property, quality): repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

派生語

派生した語

• → Cebuano: byuti

参考

• usefulness

間投詞

beauty

1. (Canada) Thanks!
2. (Canada) Cool!

   It's the long weekend. Beauty!

形容詞

beauty (comparative more beauty, superlative most beauty)

1. (Canada) Of high quality, well done.

   He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

動詞

beauty (三人称単数 現在形 beauties, 現在分詞 beautying, 過去形および過去分詞形 beautied)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.

Further reading

• beauty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “beauty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.