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cute
[ kyoot ]
adjective
- attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty:
a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- appealing and delightful; charming:
What a cute toy!
- affectedly or mincingly pretty or clever; precious:
The child has acquired some intolerably cute mannerisms.
- mentally keen; clever; shrewd.
noun
- the cutes, Informal. self-consciously cute mannerisms or appeal; affected coyness:
The young actress has a bad case of the cutes.
cute
/ ː /
adjective
- appealing or attractive, esp in a pretty way
- informal.sexually attractive
- informal.affecting cleverness or prettiness
- clever; shrewd
Derived Forms
- ˈܳٱԱ, noun
- ˈܳٱ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܳٱ· adverb
- ܳٱ·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cute1
Idioms and Phrases
- meet cute, Informal.
- (of a romantic couple) to meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way:
In this type of movie the boy and girl always meet cute.
- Also meet-cute. a situation or occasion when potential romantic partners meet for the first time in a charming or amusing way:
a classic Hollywood meet cute; his meet-cute with Jane in the bookstore.
Example Sentences
“You see some people go out and build a building, and in three years it’s very dated because of the colors, or they try to get cute. It becomes dated very quickly.”
As the tour has gone along, Instagram’s “For You” pages have steadily yielded selfies with the famously upbeat star and cute interactions.
"It is quite overdesigned as Edwardian toilets were, and I always thought, what a cute building," she said.
The little penguin becomes a kind of mascot, a very cute creature for them to rally around and a therapist of sorts.
Then, as now, they're an exceptionally cute couple – tender and funny and clearly besotted with one another.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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