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.
Idioms for cute
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.
Origin of cute
First recorded in 1615–25; aphetic variant of acute
OTHER WORDS FROM cute
cutely,adverbcuteness,noun
Words nearby cute
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The cute puppy pictured below is the latest addition to my extended family.
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For Steve was 'cute, and had the advantage of possessing trained trappers.
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Yes,—we had all the cute little boys in Carrington dressed up like Brownies.
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The fact that Angela was yellow-haired and cute was also disturbing.
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When we turned in Dan was still chuckling over his cute handling of the trip.
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